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♪♪ todd: welcome to "fox and friends" 5:00 am addition and glad those photos are back on april 2nd, 2022, and thank you for sending them in. those are your photos. rachel: i am so glad it is back, we are all back. with the and them back i feel like there is something new happening, a renewal. let's not let breaking news interrupt our national anthem. i am down with that. will: we want the and him every single morning. send your pictures to friends@foxnews.com. the slap heard around the world happened last sunday night pete: we are still talking about it.

will: it is will smith slapping chris rock. remember? >> g.i. jane 2, can't wait to see you. that was a nice one. okay. i am out here. are oh. [laughter] >> will smith just smacked [bleep] [bleep] >> it was a g.i. jane joke. >> keep my wife's name out of your mouth. >> i'm going to.

that was the greatest night in the history of television. >> will smith has resigned from the academy of motion pictures. it means basically he will not and cannot vote in future oscar nominations. she said my actions were shocking, painful and inexcusable. this includes many of my dear friends and loved ones, all those in attendance. i betrayed the trust of the academy, deprived nominees and winners of their opportunity to celebrate and be celebrated for their extra ordinary work. i'm heartbroken. i'm resigning from membership from the academy of motion picture arts and sciences and will assess any further consequences deemed appropriate. to make sure i never allow violence to overtake freedom. >> not much consequences in terms of the next movie. i've been following you on twitter and you were one of the

first going you think this is a lot deeper than that moment, wasn't just defending his wife. will: i was curious where you might be on this. what i saw was will smith attempting to recapture a little footing under his fragile ego. and ego that has been from all accounts dragged through the mud. 's his relationship with his wife is one that is not traditional, open and controlling and at that moment it was more about will smith at not will smith in defense of jayda pinkett smith. >> open marriages make people unhappy. that is my first thought on that. i do think what is interesting is i saw the video of him accepting the award before i saw the video of him slapping

chris rock. even when i saw a clip of him receiving the award i thought this is a man who is not emotionally together. there was something off about it, without knowing what had happened before. i look at this and think he has a lot of childhood trauma and it is hard to get over that. he watched his father beat up his mother as he has admitted in the past, felt like a coward, there is some of that i've got to defend my wife but ultimately the aggressor in this scenario is chatter pinkett. i think she's done a number on will smith. i don't think will smith, we don't know the workings of that marriage or what happened but it appears she had an affair with one of her son's friends and they kind of agreed that they could have an open marriage. i am for marriage as healing

but it doesn't look like will smith has gotten over being emasculated. >> he quit before he got fired. he resigned, he had a role in the apology to chris rock. initially i thought i didn't know about his personal life. the alopecia things through me out. i thought everybody knew about that and i didn't see the clip of him laughing. and my first thought was the information starts to roll out and this is a really dysfunctional relationship and he walked on stage and assaulted somebody and everybody seemed okay with it and they gave him a standing ovation. if you don't follow hollywood

closely will smith is a great dude, everybody loves him and pop culture and he plays these great roles, seemed out of character so i gave him the benefit of the doubt but before you step back and think about it, you can't do that. rachel: do you think people in the audience thought it was a joke? and then it was like get my wife's name out of your mouth and then it got weird. will: i wonder if chris rock thought it was a joke after he was hit. the real moment was the defeat, him yelling -- that is on oscar-winning performance. rachel: there are rumors in the tabloids that i follow, chris rock had something with jada pinckett smith but there's a lot of stuff going on.

bill maher was roasting hollywood about their reaction to will smith. >> always talking micro-aggression in the workplace, not having to face an uncomfortable moment, people shouldn't touch you and suddenly they were okay with this. it seems to show broken morals like you have no principles. when it is just are you like in the service of some vague principle of section out what he like your wife shouldn't be insulted even in my old way, too bad. that is what i like. it made me feel good so i forget my principles. a bad night for liberal hypocrisy. pete: what resonated for me is there's this reverse engineering of who should be the champion, who should be the

champion. modern american society the champion is the individual who claims the highest position on the victim hierarchy and suddenly jada pinckett smith is part of the equation, launches to the top of the hierarchy of victimhood, the real victim is not chris rock who got slugged but jada pinckett smith . it is all such nonsense that resulted in a pile of hypocrisy. rachel: when this happened i was on "fox and friends" before you. you came on to talk about it and i talked about the kind of abuse trump -- milani received a thousand times, these kinds of insults but i remember the moment donald trump was in the audience being heckled, before he announced his candidacy and he sat there and kind of took

it and then went out and revenge ran for president, an interesting way to handle a heckle. i think chris rock was a classy act, he remained classy throughout all of this and another thing i learned through this whole thing, she is 57. she looks amazing. i didn't know chris rock was 57. looking good. will: ukrainian president vladimir zelenskyy spoke to bret baer last night. >> how do you believe this war ends? >> translator: only with our victory. besides victory the ukrainian people will not accept any outcome. rachel: this after russia claimed ukraine struck a russian oil depot. pete: alex hogan in lviv.

>> reporter: russian forces are solidifying their forces around the eastern city of mariupol. 's at 6,000 of the roughly 1000 people have been able to be evacuated in the last day despite the fact humanitarian organizations are trying to help as many people as possible. looking at the northern part of the country, ukraine has noted the russian forces are starting to retreat days after russian negotiators said they would. russian troops have handed back control of the chernobyl nuclear power plant. in the early hours of the morning yesterday out massive fire broke out at an oil depot in belgorod, russia. russia accusing two fighter pilots for the strike which injured two people. ukraine's president and the

ministry of defense say they have no information to confirm this. >> i am sorry. i do not discuss any of my orders has commander-in-chief. there are things i only share with the military armed forces of ukraine and when they talk with me. >> reporter: ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy speaking with bret baer saying ukraine will not accept any outcome, only victory for ukraine. on friday he demoted two of his own generals calling them traitors. he has addressed 20 foreign parliaments asking for international reinforcement, another $300 million in ukrainian hope that will go toward things like thermal imaging, medical care, night vision as they continue to fight on the ground. so far the us has promised $2.3 billion in aid for ukrainian forces.

will: jennifer griffin reported most of the weapons we said we would get our there, there were reports things were not getting there. whether it is for reasons of talking or tactical changes they are moving some troops out of the north and the big question to me is what vladimir putin, what truth he knows about conditions on the battlefield? that will play into his calculus as pertains to negotiation, how much information gets to him about what is happening? he's not going to come to the table until he feels he has to. he has a lot of goals, you see zelenskyy opening up the idea of giving away some of that land or negotiating the land in south crimea and danbas, not in the north at all, but what is in vladimir putin's mind? pete: zelenskyy was asked by

bret baer how he feels about the united states. >> translator: i have faith that president biden, like any true american citizen, believes can't wants the truth to win and the truth is on the side of ukraine. i believe they want the valiance -- values that make us closer, freedom to choose, freedom to choose your dignified life. we don't want -- a special brand, give us missiles. give us airplanes. give us the old soviet planes. that's all.

give me something to defend my country with, my state. rachel: it is smart for him as he's in this negotiation phase to keep asking for more. it's important for our government to not say whether we are going to give them what he is asking for or not. there is this element of uncertainty that putin thinks the americans will give him more. i don't think we should give much more. what we ought to do is hope for a negotiation. at this point we are at a stalemate. i keep hearing -- don't you keep hearing -- i don't know what to believe and in the end no matter what, as this unfolds, it looks like ukraine is going to lose land and they will be where they were before which is -- we are not going to be in nato.

pete: it is a huge win for zelenskyy considering it could have been the entire country. danbas was contested, crimea was contested, that would be a huge victory. it has not been reported much, two ukrainian helicopters made a run into russia, 25 miles in, and what an oil depot. that is like a doolittle raid type thing, we can touch you in your territory. we will keep talking about this through the morning. will: a few additional headlines starting with this. the navy identifies the service member killed when a hawkeye plane went down off the coast of virginia. lieutenant hiring handle and was at the controls, commanding naval officer said his courage and patriotism will be truly missed. two others were rescued from the crash and will be recovered. the cause of the crash is unclear.

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switch today. will: disney have really stepped in the massive miscalculation. we will see. rachel: can we listen to that for a second? i love that, that is why the story breaks my heart.

i absolutely love disney, i love taking my kids to disney world. we have done it so many times. he is not a big fan, doesn't have little princesses, doesn't get the whole thing but if you have little girls in particular, it is, my family -- we love it and i wanted to be a wholesome, wonderful, celebrating the magic of childhood kind of experience, seeing disney weigh in on this like something that is meant to protect children's innocence really is offensive to me. will: the reason i like this, this is a long time coming, disney has been woke for a long time, bowing to china for long time, stripping their stories for a long time, diluted garbage for a long time so the latest revelation over the don't say gay building florida which doesn't say anything

about people being gay in the bill and disney taking this hard-core stance, it is a business that represents kids. it has been amazing, they are taking a strong political stance but some of their employees, the ones that are not holding signs like that should have a voice too and some are speaking out so there is a subset by a gay employee at walt disney and this is what he said. i'm a gay employee at walt disney world, disney does not speak for me. here's a portion of the argument he made. the bill does not mention the word gay once, the purposely misleading nickname don't say gay was a trojan horse, got people fired up because they thought was attacking gay people. detractors of the bill use this to lure you in but wanted to hide the gender ideology part of the bill which is what people should be concerned about. the public was being played and gay people used as pawns, the me speak for myself.

i'm not lgbt q, lgbt q plus or lgbt qi a plus. i am gay, just gay, when you refer to me is lgbt q i a plus it is offensive to me, you're putting a label on me that i never approved. rachel: or can't even say. >> we try to hash out what that entire acronym means but what is fascinating is the assumption is if you're one of those letters then you are also all of the other letters and standing solidarity with all the other letters and he points out, that he believes the gay community has been co-opted into something more about gender identity and sexual orientation at an age of innocence, kindergarten to

third grade, which most rational human beings regardless of sexual orientation i think can agree, may be strangers shouldn't talk to young children about their sex lives, that used to be noncontroversial. rachel: you had pierce morgan talking about it. i want to talk about it actually goes deeper than gender ideology but let's get to this clip because it's great you had him on the will can podcast. >> prophetically week of disney. there original position not to get involved in politics was an admirable one also of course the reason they took that position was they didn't have to take a position about the leader muslims in china where they have billions in takings there until the moment they support the leader muslims so there's a moral cowardice to

disney's concern about this. they are also streaming to all these countries where it is illegal to be gay. again there is a moral cowardice and hypocrisy there and they also deliberately, the mentality has cost a lot of lives. >> i want to hear your feedback on that. he's a fascinating individual. check out that podcast, we had some serious debates about gun control and covid. we've been on opposite sides of those issues but he has a new show called uncensored, he is not reliably liberal or conservative and really does believe we are headed in the wrong direction with trends issues and race issues and standing against this absurdity that disney has weighed in on. >> this whole controversy is

much deeper than we think, the work that you have been doing touches on what is really happening. gender ideology and crt are what is used to separate children from the values of their parents. if you want to create little revolutionary marxists, you have to tear the parent and the child apart from each other. to separate them and that is what this is about because the gender ideology, if your child is susceptible to this and when they are young they will be susceptible to this kind of indoctrination, puts them at odds with what their parents believe because most parents, our generation do not believe you can change your gender, not biologically possible, you can't pick your gender so it is just a means to a end, using children, it is about

disintegrating the family and that is how marxism and all these ideologies take root. >> it has also been a long time coming. in fact, we just did our first interview on it, about sexual education and history and we looked at the history of it. >> deep and scary. you are absolutely right. it is deep rant about separation of parents from the child, that is what is behind it. >> you will hear the most radical teachers will say out loud these are our kids. >> we will have a guest from wisconsin talking about just that, the administration, teachers feeling they don't have to tell the parents anymore. >> if it is happening in wisconsin it is happening everywhere. we've got to move on. jen psaki could be leaving the white house for tv gig at a

liberal network so can she continue in her current role? joe concha will take that on next. stay with us. ♪♪

rachel: welcome back to "fox and friends". the slap heard around the world is still sending shockwaves, will smith resigned from the academy, the best actor winner saying his actions were shocking, painful and inexcusable and promised to, quote, accept any further consequences the board deems appropriate. or to react is opinion columnist joe concha. i can't wait to talk to you about this. is bill smith resigning from

the academy awards before he is actually ousted from it? what should happen? >> you can't fire me, i quit. look at the symbolic position, let's see how many big movies will smith is cast in moving forward. fight club 2. oh might be a good idea, make him a bad guy, he's usually the good guy, let's exploit this. that would be a good career move but i love the reaction for the past week, everyone analyzing this, some like they were drunk, howard stern blamed donald trump for will smith's actions, steve schmidt, the guy who started the lincoln project did as well, a former fbi agent on cnn blamed trump, the guy who gave us for your version,

thought it could have killed chris rock, interesting, a slap, forbes magazine asked why are jokes always at the expense of black women, the world lost its mind after this and what happens next? chris rock is going to make a boatload of money because tickets used to be $50 to his shows, now $350 and will smith i think ultimately people love a comeback and if he keeps apologizing like this his next movie will be one of his bigger ones because everyone will be curious to see what he is about now. rachel: i gave my two sense. open marriages make people very unhappy, that is my analysis. we will move to another -- >> open relationships have these things, can we do that? why go out for a burger when you have a stake at home, i am

kidding. rachel: let's stop this conversation now. we are going to go to jen psaki but we have to get to that. she is now announcing she's going to leave the white house this spring, getting an msnbc gig. a lot of people are wondering whether she should still be behind the podium with this deal, it's not officially signed yet. what do you think? conflict of interest? >> she should resign on monday, she didn't deny it, clearly this is happening and it has been rumored for some time for a couple months. she can't be at the podium taking questions from nbc news and at the same time acting like an objective arbiter or spokesperson at the white house. her going there is a perfect

fit because pushing invalid truths have been her specialty. no doubt her last day, she -- here is the bottom line, she lied about republicans wanting to defund the police, died about the southern border being close, blamed donald trump for it, lied about president biden taking questions from the press all the time, the us withdrawal from afghanistan could be anything but a success. given that msnbc is the home of rachel madour who pushed trump collusion for 3 years and never apologize toward this is the perfect place for jen psaki who doesn't circle back either. rachel: probably a good home for you. you always have a home on "fox and friends". >> great transition. rachel: up next, 62,000 illegal

migrants board into the us last month, national border patrol council president brandon judd said president biden's policies are to blame, that is next.

>> border patrol sources revealing 62,000 illegal immigrants entered our country in march alone. we will break the number down further because it is staggering. border agents are bracing for the search to get worse as the

white house announces a end to the only trump era border policy they still hold onto that is working, how crucial was title 42 in efforts to secure the border? the president of the national border patrol council brandon judd joining us to discuss. before i go to my first question i want to break down title 42 and its impact, donald trump and acted title 42 on march 28, 2022, in the middle of covid 19, he says we don't want people entering our country that especially single males if we don't know your status of covid, we will send you back and they enforced that policy. over those two years, 1.7 million have encountered title 42 under the trump administration, all of those were sent back, how robustly they've enforced it but they have used it. on may 23rd title 42 is scheduled to end and as i

mentioned in the open 62,000 illegals evaded border patrol, those are got aways in february. if i go to you that number of 62,000, put that in context. how big is that number compared to last year? >> if you look at the total number, not just the got aways but overall we are encountering people we've never seen before in the history of border patrol, from 157 nations when the un only identifies 195 nations. when you look at that and add on top the got aways, the ones that have a criminal record in the united states, scary to consider who might be getting access, what might the criminal record be in the united states or their home country, what are their intentions when they come here? are they going to get jobs or become a criminal enterprise? when you look at that it

becomes extremely scary to know they are getting passed without detection and we don't know what those intentions are. they are here to do us harm and they are not doing anything to put the tools in our hands to do what is necessary. rachel: we already have 300,000 in the first 1:45 thousand 22. how big would the number be for fiscal year 2,022? to your point these are got aways, the ones who have no encounter with law enforcement, 2000 today. >> last year we set a record with 400,000. when title 42 goes away and you look at the uptick in the numbers we are seeing, last wednesday we apprehended 8,000 individuals, we are underwater and overwhelmed when we have

5000, because the message has gotten throughout the nation the title 42 is going away. we expect to reach levels of 10,000, 12,000 and when that comes to bear we are not going to have any agents in the fields to patrol the border and when that happens it will look more like a million people are going to give away, the whole population of certain state in the united states. got aways plus those that we are releasing, we released more gotaways than in montana or wyoming. will: we are seeing the pre-wave to title 42 imagine what this actually removes, you say this will surge. i remember covering bidenfield under the bridge where we had tens of thousands of illegals, is that the scenario we could have in the future? >> it is the scenario we are already seeing.

in the past we always had two fronts that were different, always fighting on two fronts. right now we are fighting on five fronts. title 42 goes away, it will be southwest of hawaii, even seeing incre increases in the of people crossing on coastal waters in alabama and florida. we are seeing it everywhere. will: as we pay attention to another border in ukraine we pay no attention to our own. it is incredibly dangerous for our sovereignty and the safety of the american people. thanks for what you do. a genius harvard university professor and youngest black person ever to receive tenure at the school is canceled. a new documentary reveals why.

♪ will: a new documentary questions the true reason a genius harvard university professor has been canceled. economics professor rollin pryor was the youngest black person ever to receive tenure at harvard in 2018 though, he was suspended without pay for two years after a sexual harassment investigation.

but harvard canceled its best black professor argues anti-woke beliefs were the true motivation for critics to wage war. >> maximally provocative questions about racism, schools, policing, and he made some discoveries. these discoveries were treasonous, exploding the political pieties that saturate this place and harvard destroyed him for it. will: rob mon. >> it is the director of that documentary and he joins us now. before we get to what rollin pryor research his explosive, i guess, controversial research might have shown, from harvard's perspective, the sexual harassment allegation they seem fairly benign, what is he accused of doing? >> well, the narrative that they established in 2018 was that he was aggressive sex actual

predator put through one of these title ix investigations this notoriously opaque and frequently politically biased processes and they successfully convicted him of sexual harassment. and that leads them to impose upon him the worst possible punishment you can impose upon a professor with tenure protections. i mean, they mortally wound his career. the thing about rolland, what i have taken to referring to him as is like the black goodwill hunting. he is like the genius from the most desperate of circumstances. his mother abandoned him at birth. he is raised why an alcoholic gambling addicted dad who goes to jail when he is in high school. yet, somehow able to power himself to harvard university. he is not only a distinguished professor there he wins the clark which is basically he is the best economist in the world

under 40. will: i want to interrupt you quickly as is often the case we are tight up against time, you know, the thing he is accused of the stellar background you have been given us and things accused of if i'm single i have to buy a new bed i learned how to negotiate in high school trying to get laid. these are not harvey weinstein level allegations here. the suggestion in your documentary many are saying what he really did was betray the orthodoxy of the source of racial injustice. what did his research indicate? >> well, most famously, he and his research team go down to houston and they scan through tens of thousands of handwritten police incident reports in order to answer the question at the white hot center of american politics right now, right? which are racist police killing black people? they find houston police are actually less likely to shoot black suspects than white

suspects. and that makes international news and that comes right before his career is cut short. will: that is fascinating and i guess at harvard unforgivable. by the way, you can see the whole story and you should at who canceled rolland.com. rob, i hope we can talk more. >> great. thank you so much. will: we reached out to harvard for a statement and we have not heard back. more information coming up.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ rachel: there's no place i would rather be than 6:00 a.m. right here in the studio with will and pete. good morning. that's a shot of north carolina. and, guys, you have been here

already an hour. will: we have been here already an hour. rachel: good morning. pete: rachel in the break about an hour ago you declared it 80's day. pete: that's not the 80's. rachel: we will have 80's in the. rachel: ace in the break and then play 2015. rachel: i'm right now requesting 80's at the 7:00 and 8:00. will: she gets her way. pete: usually works that way. you are exactly right. will: good morning again. welcome to "fox & friends." explosive new story. fascinating that so many stories are starting to make their way into the corporal punishment mainstream might get buried a little bit. will: vanity fair has joined the trend. vanity fair has an explosive new story that looks into thor i origins of code and finding out the truth in the origins of covid. this shouldn't happen. inside the virus hunting

nonprofit at the center of the lab leak controversy is the headline inside of vanity fair. it looks into peter daszak and looks into dr. anthony fauci and into the attempt to suppress anyone who pushed back on the idea that covid originated from bat poop. from -- bat soup. looked to suppress any scientist who would look into the lab leak theory and say it is a conspiracy, no, it came from a wet market. here's what the email from february said. you, me, and him, two other scientists, peter daszak is emailing with, should not sign this statement -- a statement, by the way, condemning the lab leak theory as a conspiracy. we shouldn't sign anything, so it has some distance from us and, therefore, doesn't work in a counter productive way. then put out a statement by the way that doesn't link him back to our collaboration so we maximize an independent voice. he has coordinated a group of

scientists to write a letter saying, you remember the letter it came out early in the pandemic, it's a complete conspiracy to suggest this came from a lab we will step back as we look independent so you guys denounce it thank you very much. rachel: wasn't just a conspiracy tied up in everything liberal racism. you were engaging in asian hate as well. i think it's really -- it's been two years of just so much stuff, so much lying. so much manipulation and the media really playing along with it that it's hard to remember back, pete, to just how controversial it was to suggest, as tom cotton and a few others did, donald trump did, that, hey, there's a virus that is very deadly that leaked from a city that has a virology lab in it maybe it's not the wet market. maybe it came out of this lab. and boy, you would -- you were slammed if you said that.

pete: you were slammed then and in 2011 and some today. what this vanity fair article points out is there a scientist his name is bloom. is he a genetic scientists and looks at how these things mutate and noticed some of the early sars cov-2 genomic sequences had just been deleted. no longer and he sort of pointed out -- he got on a zoom call with fauci and others and presented this preliminary paper that said by looking at these deleted sequences which wuhan wanted us to delete and we deleted as well, maybe that would actually get a sense of where this actually came from. and there was a huge confrontation on this zoom call to the point where they tried to shout him down and intimidate him not to produce this paper which led to this article and other things he has written saying this is not what science looks like. science all the date a that and all the information out there and let the information lead you to conclusions which, of course we know hasn't happened from the

beginning. all tied into peter daszak and ecohealth alliance which was funded by the nih which is run by anthony fauci. rachel: goes back to the why. why would anthony fauci want to help suppress the origins of -- you know, where did covid come from, coming from this lab? why was it so important for him to take the entire globe off that track and onto the idea that it came from a wet market so as not to implicate the lab in china? and the answer is that i believe, a, that he -- our government, through him, funded some of this research so he did not want that to happen. and i think, also, he wants more of this funding to happen. and so he believes in this data function research and he is afraid that this would turn people off from this -- this very, very dangerous research. will: the origin of covid is just one element of the covid story of the last two years where we have been so thoroughly

propagandized. you know, we mentioned it in the previous hour. i did have the newest fox contributor, fox nation host piers morgan on my podcast this weekend. and, you know, at the inclination of rachel who told me piers has been a bit of a hammer when it comes to vaccination and masks. i asked him don't you feel a bit propagandized because he says -- rachel: you asked him about the vaccine? will: i did. he said in many instances his position has changed. acknowledging that he might have been wrong and overly emotional. not all the time but sometime. and i say don't you feel propagandized because the origin is just one place in which it feels like we have always been thrown off of the ability to find the truth. another, for example, is on the role ofnatural immunity. rachel: can i say one thing as we close out the lab leak theory? i think the other thing there was very powerful global forces that, you know, if it came out that it came from the lab in china, then -- and that china

actually lied about it, and tried to cover it up, then there would have to be consequences for china. look at the consequences we have on russia. nobody wanted these kinds of consequences on china because too many, you know, corporate interests are tied to china, not so much to russia. so, i think that there is a lot going on here. and anyone who is a globalist as fauci and many others complicit in this cover-up were afraid that china might have to face consequences. pete: the most benign explanation was oops, we were funding this. if the cover-up is we have to not tell the truth because we need to do more of this research even though the research we did led to this so maybe we should question it. rachel: yes. pete: of course none of it makes sense. rachel: no introspection on it. will: so many elements of the covid story which your skepticism has been earned. many are passing around the slip from dr. anthony fauci from 2004

contradicting a position he has forwarded over the last two years. it's on natural immunity. it's weird. in 2004, natural immunity was a thing. watch. >> she has had the flu for 14 days, should she get a flu shot. no, if she got the flu for 14 days she is as protected as anybody could be. the best vaccination is to get infected yourself. >> if she really has the flu, if she really has the flu, she definitely doesn't need a flu vaccine if she really has the flu. >> she should not get it again. >> she doesn't need it because it's the most potent vaccination is getting infected yourself. rachel: i'm going to scream right now it the most amazing clip. i like that dr. anthony fauci, the 2004. like him? pete: i like him a lot. where is he? the most potent vaccination is natural immunity. someone like him can be forgiven at the beginning of 2020 by

saying we don't know enough about this virus yet. buff as we moved six months in, and if he believes what he said in 2004, that study should start immediately about what type of natural infection gives you immunity so that by the time we get to a vaccine, which is late 2000 or 2021, you are at the point where you know, okay, if you have had covid, you don't need the vaccine. that should have been the easy take and the clearest scientific take. instead, i keep going back to the question you just asked which is why? why would you now deny natural immunity when you confirmed it before? i get the first couple of months. i get it. we don't know. couple of months. after that why? rachel: i know why. if you are captured by big pharma that -- pete: really? i have to understand. is it really because anthony fauci is getting big paychecks? maybe it is. rachel: we need to get to the bottom of it. rand paul asked anthony fauci

about natural immunity and he was criticized for it here is rand paul talking about this new footage that came out from dr. fauci that we just discovered in 2004. here you go. >> that's why all of a sudden i would say this after i was infected in march of 2020 and everybody resisting me, including all the media and dr. fauci saying well, we just don't know. we just don't know. we have never heard of this thing. and about six months ago, fauci was telling cnn what about natural immunity? he said that's an interesting concept. we should look into that. but, here's the truth of the matter is this: if you look at what they have been doing, they have been suppressing any knowledge of what happens to people like myself who are not vaccinated but have been infected but it turns out that not only is my protection as good as the vaccine, it may be two times as good as the vaccine. will: that is where we are today vs. where we were in 2004.

the two of you continue to debate during the show on the why. have you come up with the answer. pete: what do you think? will: you know, i think that the level of control inside the medical community of big pharma is impossible to quantify. i do think that money and big pharma fund every bit of research out there thus corrupting potential university and academic papers. i think then the scientific community is beholden to the money. i don't know that it manifests in the way that you characterize it. is anthony fauci getting a big check? it could just be that the influence and power of big pharma's money, throughout western medicine is inseparable. and if you are getting in the way of big pharma's one solution to the pandemic, then you have undercut what has become known as western medicine. pete: that, to me is -- i think you're right and how do you

control when you are giving people the option to defer to natural immunity? it's easy to control vaccines. get the shot or don't get the shot. if you can't ultimately prove if someone has been infected or if they have natural immunity, that's complicated. you can't control people and tell them whether a to do. so i think it might be a combination of those. i don't know, it's a giant question. rachel: i think the bottom line is people like you and i who were infected and had natural immunity and refused to take the vaccine because, a, there were no long-term studies which was another reason why i didn't want to take it were vilified. but, worse, lots of people lost their jobs. we had just last week people, firefighters nurses, people in this city but they are all over the country, who lost their jobs, lost their livelihoods because they refused to take the vaccine because they already had natural immunity. somebody has to be held accountable. going back to what you said originally, if we don't get to the why and we don't figure out and these people are not

accountable for all of the things that led to covid and all of the repercussions of their lockdowns and their mandates, this will happen again. and that's why we are having this discussion. pete: china is a big one. will: with that clip from dr. anthony fauci recognizing immunity from 2004. we reached out to the natural institute of for a statement we haven't heard back. we have heard from the vice president kamala harris on numerous occasions attempting to fill out a book report on a book she has not red. pete: good way to put it. will: attempting to meet a word count. that is somebody by the way answer for a lot of kamala's answers. pete: that's really good. will: 200 page book report see what you can could. she hasn't read the book but she repeats the statement. pete: i did the that a lot in college. will: here is the latest on regime change, watch. >> he said that vladimir putin should no longer be the leaderof russia. do you agree? >> listen, i think that you

train the point quite accurately and well which is america's policy has been and will continue to be focused on the real issue at hand, which is one, the needs of the ukrainian people, which we will continue to support through humanitarian assistance, through security assistance, but also ensuring that there is going to be serious consequence for vladimir putin and russian aggression as it relates to ukraine. >> to your point, joy, i have been to poland, toiive romania, i have been to europe, i think probably at least three times in the last four months. i was in munich, germany where i gave a speech. >> so no luck on getting you to weigh in on whether he should remain? >> well, no, listen, let me be very clear. let me be very clear. we are not in to regime change and that is not our policy, period. will twhal is contradicting joe biden's statement from one week ago where he said that, god, this man cannot remain in power.

rachel: and our government is involved in regime change all over the world through ngos and so forth. she knows that this is as you said word salad a way to avoid it in the end give credit to joy reid hey, what about that. she finally did get an answer, a much more clear answer than joe biden probably, you know, agrees with since we know he actually wanted regime change. pete: every time kamala harris talks i listen. same with joe biden. under the obama administration, you know, he would -- if there was a speech, you didn't want to watch it because you knew it was scripted you knew he was competent with his words. under this administration, if you are watching cable news. will: high wire act. pete: if joe biden is talking or kamala harris is watching stop and watch try to translate. do the best you can. it's so sad that it's -- it used to be gaining.

now it's really more sad. this is someone who the reports are refuses to do her homework. and then from those that brief her has a high degree of self-confidence how good she is at what she does and gets mad at those same staffers after she gives an answer like that. nothing. will: it is a high wire act. pete: with both of them. will: biden and harris. white knuckled not sure which way it goes for america. rachel: isn't that true with trump too, will? i would feel he would go off script and really interesting. but there is a difference but i there was also that element of -- pete: it wasn't a cognitive element. rachel: absolutely not. pete: as it is with him or knowledge element. i think that's the perfect way to put it fill in a word count and say words and think about talking points. brings back to the podium she was at in europe kept looking down like the northern -- eastern edge. if you don't know it, you don't know it ever given a speech or given a topic and you know you don't know it that's me every

day. rachel: she did make a mistake was that was maybe not as dangerous as the one joe biden made last week when he said putin needed to go. but she said -- she included ukraine and nato. do you remember when she gave that speech and then they changed it in the transcript as well? the difference is this. this is the first time we have seen the word, you know, nuclear and, you know. nuclear alerts. this is a very, very precarious time. and precision is important and obviously that's not her forte. will: since we have a little bit of extra time, which we never have in a segment before pete turns to headlines. i see you are going to turn to soccer. did you see the world cup draw? this is united states group england, iran, potentially ukraine. ukraine has -- isn't that an interesting geopolitical group draw for the united states of america in its upcoming world cup. we could potentially watch the

united states take on ukraine and united states take on iran in world cup. rachel: who has a better soccer team. will: should be united states and england emerge from that group. should be the top two. pete: does that mean the russians are officiating those games? they are running the talks with the iranians. rachel: are the ukrainian soccer players actually playing soccer or are they fighting for their country? will: that's great question, rachel. it will be difficult. there are great ukrainian soccer players playing across the world right now. what is the status of that come summertime. play against scotland and wales. pete: who are the blue check marks in america going to cheer for america or ukraine? they all have the blue and yellow flags ready to go. rachel: my guess is ukraine. pete: there is a soccer headline here. will, i will let you read it since you are a big fan. soccer star team goalie hope solo arrested in north carolina. the two time olympic gold medalist is facing gwi,

resisting arrest and misdemeanor child abuse charges. spotted at shopping center passed out behind the wheel of her car engine running she had 2-year-old twins in the car with her. pete: i don't know that's where it was going. actor will smith resigns from the academy of motion picture arts and sciences after slapping comedian chris rock at the oscars. smith saying in a statement quote my actions were shocking, painful and inexcusable. i will accept any further consequences the board deems appropriate. the board accepted his resignation and says he faces possible expulsion department quit before he got fired? we will find out. pay 1 residents universal income over three years. the so-called breathe pilot program aims to combat poverty by paying recipients $1,000 a month with no strings attached the qualified residents must be 18 years old, live in a low

income neighborhood. applicants will be chosen at random to win. and those are your headlines. rachel: that will solve inflation. will: solve a lot of problems. rachel: wow. one well, up next, a wisconsin school district is being called the next loudoun county as teachers are told parents must, quote, earn the right to know their child's identity. hear from one outraged parent. will: later, major media outlets finally admitting hunter biden's laptop scandal is real. we will break down which country the president's son has made shady business deals in a little bit later. ♪ ♪ motrin works fast to stop pain where it starts. like those nagging headaches. uncomfortable period pains. and disruptive muscle aches.

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that knowledge must be earned. our next guest is a parent to a seventh grader in a school district. maggie joins us now. maggie, thank you very much for being here leaked documents training. privilege checklist. students can use any gendered facility that the gender they identify with. and parents -- what they were taught is that many kids have a different gender at school than they have at home because they haven't told their parents. your reaction to this kind of training? >> hi, pete, thank you so much for having me. it has always been the socially accepted standard that parents are the safest place for our kids. and all of the parents that i have talked to in the eau claire school district are shocked by

what we have heard. pete: this includes using any bathroom you want based on the gender identity you have at school this means your seventh grader potentially could have a different gender identity at school and they don't have to tell you at home? >> that does seem to be what is coming out of the district and what we are being told. again, what us parents are most concerned about here is that it definitely seems like the eau claire school district is driving a wedge between parents and children. and when the relationship between a parent and a child and that trust is broken, we lose the entire family dynamic going forward and how our parents are supposed to regain that trust to continue to further upbring their children.

pete: does feel like that's the point to divide kids and parents. by the way we asked the eau claire area school district for a statement. here's what they said. they said: our staff often find themselves in positions of trust with our students. the professional development presentation in question shared extensive data and information to assist our staff as they strive to create safe and safe learning environments to children. if parents have concerns we encourage them to contact their child's teacher, school principal or the district office. they talk about the trust the school has with kids. they say you need to earn -- the word was earn the opportunity to learn the identity of your kids potentially. how do you feel about that? >> well, like i said, mom and dad being being deemed unsafe should not be the default assumption for any school district anywhere. moms and dads and their children

are a family dynamic and the eau claire area school district in our parents position really must earn the respect and trust back of the parents in the community. because the insistence of the administration that they have done nothing wrong here is absurd. pete: real quick, maggie, what can you do about this? is this going to school boards? is this calling the principal? what's the reaction of the community. >> i definitely believe there is a large amount of concerned parents. we have taken our concerns through the proper channels and tried to work with the school board and the superintendents of our district. what's going to happen next, i'm not sure. we do -- there is elections going on all across the country on april 5th. so, i definitely would urge everybody at eau claire to get out and vote across the country

to elect school board candidates to support parents. pete: school board candidates that support parents, yeah. it's a vote we often don't pay attention to but we better at this point. maggie, thanks for speaking out i hope show up in eau claire like they have in loudoun. >> thank you so much. pete. pete: you got it. border patrol says 62,000 immigrants crossed over into the u.s. last month alone. bracing for another major surge. up next speaking to one mayor standing up to protect border towns. re♪ ♪of travel i've had my share, man.♪ ♪i've been everywhere.♪ ♪♪ ♪simply irresistible♪ ♪ ♪ ♪simply irresistible♪

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childhood sexual abuse during jury selection. the judge said the miscommunication was, quote, unfortunate buffer not deliberate or based on bias. the judge set maxwell's sentencing for june. she faces up to 65 years in prison. a british transgender cyclist is ruled ineligible to compete as a woman in the british natural all man champship today the world governing for the event denying emily bridges because she is still registered as a male cyclist, they say she cannot compete in women's events until her male registration expires. she had competed as a man until up to earlier this year. kids ages 2 to 4 still have to mask up in new york city. unbelievable. an appeals court upholding mayor eric adams mask mandate for kids hours after a lower court ruled to strike it down. the lower court called the mandate, quote: arbitrary,

capricious and unreasonable. but an appeals court ruled for it to stay in place. adams is calling it a win. and those are your headlines. will? will: all right, thanks, rachel. shocking new numbers reveal that more than 62,000 known got-aways entered our country through the border in march. now border towns are bracing for even bigger surge when title 42 ends next month. our next guest is outraged saying there is no plan. i'm going to take a playbook right out of black lives matter except i'm going to change and it say border lives matter. we are going to block that highway 90. the mayor who wrote of that texas don mcclock lynn joins me now. let's talk about what is and soon will be got-aways, 62,000 in march. experienced this surge. >> the got-aways we deal with every day. usually in the morning before 8:00 we have had 3 or 4 pursuits

that come through town. the got-aways it's just crazy. i mean, we had one yesterday they broke into a house edge of the city. send the sheriff's department out there. one deputy. two police officers out there called border patrol, couldn't get border patrol, they were tied up processing paperwork and so we deal with this every day. title 32 away the surge will be invasion. no way to describe it other than that we are being told from people we know there is 300 to 400,000 people waiting on the other side for the order to go away. will: that's the part i wanted to get to next there is what is and what will soon be. title 42. look, the biden administration has been obviously opposed to any sort of border wall shutting down attempts to eject the border wall. title 42 has in essence served at least some function as a

virtual border wall at least turning away you know illegal immigrants and you the guise of covid protection. if that goes away, what happens? what happens next next? uvalde, what happens at the border. >> right now you are seeing 1,000 to 2,000 a day trying to crash. all of a sudden looking at worse than the haitian crisis you saw back in september. i mean, you are going to see 30, 40,000 people a day. and the message it is going to send farther south into other countries. you will see larger and larger caravans coming in way. they will come across that border it will be a complete, total chaos invasion. because there is no infrastructure down here and the government has no plans to handle this. will: i said it in my introduction quickly mayor, you said you want to take a playbook from blm, you want to call it border lives matter. what is that message and what do you hope to accomplish? >> well, i hope it never comes to that but if you start dropping, as the border patrol told me they were going to start

bringing anywhere from 100 to 150 a day into uvalde and start dropping them off grocery store. our town will be real fast. i will pick up the phone and call everybody i know and go about three miles, four miles outside of town and block highway 90 where you can't come through into uvalde. i hope it never comes to that. that's what we'll do if we have to to stop thin investigation and drop off in our community. will: you know, it stands to reason that the federal government doesn't do its job, the state governments will. and if state governments won't, then local municipalities will or no one will. if somebody steps up, it's got happen every step of the way. we will see what about there in uvalde. mayor mclaughlin, great to talk to you this morning. >> yes, sir, thank you. i appreciate it y'all have a great day. will: finally, major media outlets, besides fox, are reporting on hunter biden's laptop as we have been doing it

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let's break down some of the countries with financial links to the president's son shady business dealings. in 2014, hunter's business partner from kazakhstan wired transferred $142,000 to a company called rosemont seneca. then while serving on burisma's board in ukraine he received about $50,000 a month. in russia, a billionaire, whose husband was the former mayor of moscow wired 3.7 million to rosemont seneca. and in china "the washington post" has revealed an energy con glom member rant paid over $4.8 million to entities controlled by hunter rob omari knows the story well after covering hunter at the "new york post." set founder of compact magazine and he joins us now. sohrab, great to see you, china, ukraine, russia, all the players in the news right now with the situation in ukraine. what does this tell you? why is the media now finally

coming out and admitting it after the election? so long after the election. >> feels like they are taunting us. two years ago this was true and yet we utterly suppressed the story. we used big tech censorship to suspend the "new york post" the oldest nation's newspaper. we had intelligence officials claim it was russian disinformation and we made it go away and president biden became -- he got elected. now that it's all safe we can tell you yeah, actually the "new york post" was right and fox news and its follow-up reporting was right as well. it's very enraging. i don't feel any better about it now two years later. rachel: dirtiest trick in political history in the united states of america. it literally changed an election and we have polling that proves that. so what does it tell you that, you know, who are all these players? you talk a lot about the corruption of the media. there is a lot of different

entities working together, the dnc big tech, what does it tell you? >> it suggests we live under something like a oligarchy we still have some of the democratic structures we inherited from our founding, thank god but it's been corrupted on a massive scale such that you can't just blame the government it's deep state people bike 50 former intelligence officials who collide and claimed russian disinformation. russian corporations, big tech we talk about russian oligarchs and corrupt chinese. in some ways we have similar structures developing in this country. rachel: yeah. many of these, especially the tech companies are more powerful than, you know, our government or many other countries around the world. you say they are not telling the full story even now.

>> right. for example, "the washington post" story where they said yes there was no reference to bobulinski. a business partner of hunter's who tucker had on right during that time to have an extensive interview and said the big man referred to in those emails is the president himself joe biden august that story it's good that they are coming forward but denied the link to the president himself. they sequester it, partition it to make it all seem like a hunter problem. rachel: yeah. i have always said that this is really not a hunter biden story, it's a joe biden story. and the emails show sohrab that, you know, hunter was paying some of his father's bills. joe biden and jill biden had the office that hunter biden shared with this chinese businessman who had ties to the ccp. there is a lot about joe here. why don't they want to tell the

story? few news organization this is a huge story our president might be compromised by the chinese government and other entities. >> to answer the question is to answer it they prefer him. joe biden was the preferred candidate of what i sometimes called the regime conglomerate of big tech corporations, most corporations and the media. and so and you are right, because hunter wouldn't be who he is but for his father, right? so he had -- the father has to be the focus of this investigation. rachel: yeah. and the father has the power and the father could be influencing policy based on what he wants to keep secret. great stuff. you are at compact right now? >> yes. we just launched. rachel: how can people find you. >> at compact mag.com. rachel: so great having you on set. >> wonderful, thank you. rachel: thanks. our friends at bass pro shops are celebrating 50 years in

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because it's 15 years bass pro shops. we are also out here in the dark right now. if you think we look a little dark. do you normally start fishing at 5:30 in the morning. >> we start at sunrise. all of our events start at sunrise or afterwards. we are here to celebrate 50 years of bass pro shops. this is the granddaddy of all stores here in springfield. wonders of wildlife museum. so many square foot of outdoor space. rick: you don't have an actual number. >> it is huge. it grows all the time. >> like half a million square feet. i have heard that somewhere. i don't know that for sure but that's what i heard. rick: there is aquarium here that is spectacular. >> 1.6 miles through that aquarium. and not only that there is a whole outdoor scene of animals. everything you can imagine in there. rick: you see the world fishing fair. this is the world fishing fair that's going on right now. and benefits for people who buy tickets. there was a concert last night luke bryan, dierks bentley.

proceeds of that going to conservation. >> 50% of all concert tickets are going into conservation to continue our sports, improve habitat stock the lakes all across the country. rick: let's talk a little bit of fishing here. i have always fished with my dad. one of five kids. my dad must have spent the entire time getting this -- each line re-set up because you cast out one time and as a kid you make a mess of it? >> you can do it. we did a special trick. we made a cast with it and we put a piece of tape on there. so you are not actually -- you won't backlash that real. go it out and throw it out there. rick: that's totally not fair. >> a little bass pro trick we do. rick: why don't you trust my skills? >> look at this. no backlash after the all. >> i think that says 4,000.

i almost got to 4,000. they set up this pond here. so you can go out and fish. and it's a competition that i think later on in the day or maybe tomorrow we're going to be doing a competition here. got points at all these different spots. >> yeah. going to be a lot of people out here doing casting competition. the paw patrol. tons of stuff to do for families. lots of kids need to come out. a bunch of great family activities before the concerts even kick off at night. a lot of fun stuff here. >> camping and lots of fishing seminars of all kinds. four different stages for seminars 500,000 square feet. rick: you want to get outside and into nature and you don't know how to do it you can come learn how to do. >> come learn anything you want right here. everything under one roof and one place. rick: picking up right now. >> like a real tournament morning. rain. [laughter] rick: we're going to get out of here. coming up later in the show i will be talking to johnny morris the founder of braps.

>> is he awesome. rick: congratulations bass pro shops 50 years. >> y'all come see us. rachel: big anniversary. thank you, rick, edwin, and randy. will: more "fox & friends" coming up

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capital of kyiv and nearby chernihiv. russian troops withdrawing from the airport in the north and handing back control of the chernobyl nuclear power plant. the pentagon on friday announcing that it canceled an intercontinental ballistic missile test on march 2nd to not escalate nuclear tensions even further with russia. now, back here on the ground, while the land has been recaptured in the north, this is what the landscape looked like that ukrainian troops are taking back. towns turned to rubble. buildings blown up homes. really a shell of what once was just five weeks ago. now, are despite the scaling back of russian forces in the north, it is a very, very different story in the eastern part of the country in mariupol. russian forces blocking humanitarian aid organizations from making any rescues in the last two days, roughly 100,000 people remain trapped. only 6,000 have made it out. now, in the early hours of the morning yesterday, a massive fire broke out at an oil depot

in russia located just about 20 to 30 miles from the border of ukraine. russia accusing two ukrainian helicopters for the strike injured two people. ukraine's president, however, as well as the ministry of defense say they have no information about this. >> i'm sorry, i do not discuss any of my orders as commander-in-chief. there are things which i only share with the military armed forces of ukraine and when they talk with me. >> ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy warning residents of the dangers of the land mines across the country as scaled up air raids in the donbas region takes place. more than 4.1 million ukrainian refugees have fled the country and more than 6 million are displaced internally. hammer russia with crushing economic sanctions. russia's gas giant gas control terminating in england,

switzerland and czech republic. bringing back a lot of the its resources and focusing on st. petersburg. thank you. will: thank you, alex. as you saw on that clip volodymyr zelenskyy was on with bret baier talking about america, america's role, what does he need? here is a bit of what he had to say. >> a million of quality-bullet proof vest or some special brand helmet. just give us missiles. give us airplanes. if you can get give us f 18 or f 19 or whatever you have. give us the old soviet plane. that's all. give them into my hands. give me something to there is conflicting types of weapons whether they're being actually

delivered or not and in this environment it's really really tough to get a straight answer rear than us pontificate about it we thought we would bring in bell velicovich who has been on the ground in ukraine for weeks. he actually said the biden administration is misinforming the public will aid shipments and he joins us now. thanks for being here. thanks for everything you are doing. we can't wait to get your perspective. i want to throw some reporting your way and get to you react to it. our own jennifer griffin reported overnight that according to senior u.s. defense officials all 2,000 javelin anti-tank missiles, as part of the $800 billion package have been delivered to ukraine just two weeks after joe biden's signed the authorization. she has also told that all the switchblade drones are en route now as well. does that reporting comport what you are seeing on the ground, bret? >> yeah. it does. and but it actually isn't enough in my opinion. i'm seeing all the promise to

the ukrainian government not getting to the front lines. i'm echoing zelenskyy's sentiment to bret baier. he was being polite because sadly a lot of the outside help and support cleaning up the devastation isn't coming from the u.s. government. it's coming from everyday people. the u.s. government is not set up to move as fast as us. i have been here a month i'm barely witnessing any government weapons and humanitarian aid made made into t. into the country. most of the aid is stuck in poland and people are playing games. people are dying here there are real consequences, guys. ukraine needs these items now. you can't run this from poland. civilian organizations are still doing the job of the u.s. government and this war is being supported by nonprofit. businessmen guys turned clothing factories into making tactical vests. they are not asking for payment. it's free. getting items to the front lines at great risk to themselves. we have helping extract citizens in mariupol and others places. they are pushing through russian lines.

there is a lot of misconceptions here coming out of the u.s. administration that say they frankly don't have enough people on the ground. in my opinion a lot of press releases and not a lot of weapon movement. i hope people in your audience are holding them accountable for not doing what they pledge to do. you can't run the war from poland. think how demoralizing a ukrainian soldier being told he is getting all this medical and lethal aid and it's not showing up? why am i getting calls from ukrainian commanders wondering where this stuff is? i just don't understand it these switchblade drones are great example that biden promised would be here. would help change the course of war. how is this that my team alone has got more drones in country from american donors back home and supplied more drones to the ukrainian front lines than the entire u.s. government at this point? what are we doing? will: what are the logistics? you say you can't run this war from poland. how do you make the handoff? is it at the polish border? better yet? how is the american government trying to make this handoff run

logistics into ukraine versus how you mentioned private donors are doing it? what are private donors doing to get those to the front lines the american government is not. >> i think there is a lot of bureaucracy in play here. i think that they have to get all these random approvals that are totally not necessary. literal fiscal cliff in the last 48 hours. i hired a drug. and it drove across the medical supplies combat -- number one requested item on the front lines turn cut, life-saving material and diva it back across into ukraine and unloaded it into a hub and already on the front line in the war places like kharkiv, mykolaiv and chernihiv. it's not rocket science. it's very, very easy to do. i know there is good people in the u.s. government who mean well. the good ones are being restrict and limited by the policies of u.s. government because of the higher ups in charge. it's been so wild to hear the news about this supposed humanitarian aid coming in here.

i'm spending all day hundreds of combat medical systems in here that should have already been here. i'm sure there is millions of dollars that have already been supplied from the u.s. government and it's not making it in country. the commanders are not asking for a lot. they are not sitting here asking for stealth drones and f-18s. give us whatever can you give us. they are going out on the battlefield with tennis shoes. doctors that are doing surgeries out here with not the proper morphine and medical equipment that you would normally have at a field hospital. this isn't a problem that is too difficult to fix. the u.s. government has all the resources in the world. but, yet, you have great americans doing this job that frankly could have been fixed weeks ago. rachel: bret, i guess as i listen to you i have some questions. is it deliberate? is there a policy reason? are there people at the top who want to slow this down maybe for the purposes of the negotiations

that are going on or is this just, you know, a giant bumbling, you know, government that can't get their act together and it's just, you know, bureaucracy. >> i think it's incompetence plain and simple. i don't think people want to stop aid from getting in. i think it has to be a slow moving government that, you know, already into a month of this war, a lot of stuff should have been here. they don't have the capability to get things in here quickly and guys like us who do special operations know how to figure stuff out on the fly. it's just absurd. this whole cog, you know, the wheel of government that exist where this stuff should have already been here by. >> now the other thing i want to talk about that's very important to me is we're finding a lot of people back home gouging prices on some of the most important combat medical gear that should be out here by now. this right here, this is an one of the most life-saving things here in country going to

ukrainian soldiers on the frontline. these kits, professionally made, probably no more than $80 max. turn mush cuts, going for almost $250 now in the united states. people are gouging this supply line i'm taking a list of these folks that are actually doing this because they are stopping equipment from getting into the hands of the people that need it most. i'm just sick of it. pete: bret, thank you for what you are doing and for your insight. sounds a lot like afghanistan where the government isn't and can't do anything making things happen. bret bell covic thank you very much we appreciate it. >> thank you. rachel: thank you. pete: the reason that perspective is so important is there's a giant leap between a press release being issued that weapons are going somewhere and

then weapons actually landing in the hands of the right people in the right place. there is a huge gap there. rachel: agreed. that's why i ask this question. if i'm zelenskyy, i'm going to say and this is good for his negotiating position. send me all this stuff. and it's good for the american government to not say whether -- let people assume they are going to get all this stuff. but maybe, this is about we are not at the very top. we don't know what is going on. maybe this is part of the negotiation and the deal is something is going to happen here. there is going to be. pete: the grabbed stragdz of the biden administration national security team. they got it all figured out. playing that 3-d chess over here we got putin right where they want him. i want to think that. rachel: i would like to think that war is a -- failure. pete: war a failure but war is part of politics. you have to bring putin to his knees enough that he knows he

has to negotiate. and we are not going to do that with. rachel: but they are negotiating right now. we do know that. pete: if you read the reports. barely. tiptoeing. someone needs to feel like they need to negotiate buff they are effective. putin need to save face or zelenskyy feels like is he going to give up too much. i don't know that we're there yet. we will see. will: move from consequential to seemingly inconsequential. rachel: for sure. will: pete can't get into this story. i will make an argument why i think it is more consequential in a moment. pete, just a reminder, the aftermath of the slap heard around the world, the accountability, it's begun to come in. when it comes to the slap gate. you remember slap gate. watch. >> jada, i love you, g.i. jane 2 can't wait to see it all right? [laughter] that was a nice -- i'm out here.

uh-oh. >> oh, wow. wow. will smith just smacked the [bleep] out of me. [laughter] >> keep my wife's name out your [bleep] mouth. >> wow, dude. >> yes. >> it was a g.i. jane joke. >> keep my wife's name out your [bleep] mouth! >> i'm going to. okay? >> that was the greatest night in the history of television. will: the consequences beginning to come in, perhaps. will smith has resigned from the academy of motion picture association. he said the following: my actions were shocking, painful, and inexcusable. the list of those i have hurt is long and includes chris, his family. many of my dear friends and loved ones all those in attendance and global audience watching at home. i betrayed the trust of the

academy. i deprived other winners their opportunity to celebrate sand be celebrated for their extraordinary work. i'm heart broken. i'm resigning from the tammy of motion pictures arts and sciences and accept any further consequences the board deems appropriate. change takes time and i'm committed to doing the work to assure i never allow violence to overtake reason. here is my short argument to you, pete, on why it's more than just a celebrity spat. i think there was an attempt to say hey this was standing up for your woman this was chivalry. i don't think by the way violence is always off the table. this jump to violence is never appropriate. no, there are times when violence is appropriate in this world. war is passionate of politics. but, let's be real. this wasn't chivalry. this was will smith be weak and woke in his ego fragile and why i think it's important is we have a struggle -- we are struggling not just to define what is woman in america. struggling to define what was

masculine. this is not masculinity. rachel: what is marriage? these two are trying to reimagine marriage? any time you hear reimagine i get a little bit nervous. right? and i think when i saw this, i mean, you say this is weak and woke, when what i saw in this and i'm sorry, i should have let you. pete: go ahead. rachel: what i saw in this was pain. i saw a lot of pain. that's not excuse him going and clocking chris rock at all. but i saw a man in pain. and, listen, he has childhood trauma that he talked about. he watched his father beat his mother up and he, you know, later wrote about it in his biography that he felt like a coward that he couldn't actually defend his mother. so, there are layers of that. and so he is a wounded person. and i believe that his wife further wounded him by what she did to him by, you know, having annual affair with her son's friend. this came out.

then they talked about yeah, we worked this out. but we kind of had an open marriage during this period of time. i'm happy they are back together. i'm all about marriage and reconciliation. that's wonderful. but, clearly, will smith is hurting on so many levels. and so, yeah, there was this aggression here. but maybe the aggression is from jada and i said this earlier. you know, fox news alert. open marriages, you know, make people unhappy and he looks to be somebody who is just not happy in this situation. obviously felt emasculated in many ways and acting out and overacting to compensate. pete: yeah. my initial reaction was based in -- was from the perception of they don't live in a real world anyway. already are alternate universe rules don't apply to them. that's why everybody thought it was a big joke to begin with. we teen who we saw more aspects of it the clip we played didn't show will smith's initial reaction laugh at the joke. then he got the side eye as you

pointed out, will. oh, i need to do something about that. initially my -- i mean, as you get more information, as always, it wasn't -- chris rock didn't know she had alopecia. rachel: i didn't either. pete: will smith nice guy. standing up for his wife but then got whole open marriage thing. is this the place you are going to draw the line? at the end of the day, does it have bigger ramifications. we are trying to draw these bigger conclusions does it mean everybody is going to start slapping everybody? i don't think so. i think people recognize these holiday folks and even the clapping for his award, you know, what, 45 minutes later or whenever he got his award. i think no one quite knew what to do with it at that time? doesn't mean oh, now we are for violence. sometimes in realtime you react in ways that don't -- when you go back 72 hours later major any sentence. in this case it's like no, no. will smith, slap the dude for

nothing. rachel: i think they probably had to filter it through politically correct. what should i do? i'm a hollywood elite. and these are two black men. like maybe they had to filter it through. will: hard to see. rachel: see where they had to fall on this. i think some people were thrown off it looked like a comedy sketch at the beginning. will: one person that kind of took will smith's side or at least tried to understand where schmidt coming from. piers morgan as he explained to me on the will cain podcast. >> i interviewed jada pinkett smith at cnn. will smith turned up unannounced and sat in audience of one. before we got going. mr. morgan don't upset my wife you wouldn't like me when i'm angry. this is guy who loves his wife crazy passion. you have a crazy hot headed relationship with both of them. we know a lot of the details. we don't know all the answers. but we know it sounds a little bit crazy their relationship. i asked my wife back in london with our 10-year-old daughter. i said if that had been us and i had done that what would you

think? she said i just said to our daughter we were just watching it early morning in the u.k. and she said i just said to her, daddy would have done exactly the same thing. violence is never the answer. [laughter] will: we debate gun control and covid. check out the whole thing monday as it drops. rachel: great interview. great week for you to have miers morgan on and also, will, you talked to him about covid and vaccine mandates. weighs -- not a little bit a big stickler shaming people about vaccines. is he having a few second thoughts. pete: some and gun control which you are definitely on a different side of. check out that. will: coming up from the basketball court to congress former nba player is looking to unseat minnesota's democratic congresswoman ilhan omar. >> i'm running for congress because our leaders have sold us out. we have to fight for freedom. we have to protect our

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pete: up next, up now a former nba player making a move from the court to congress, he hopes. royce white taking on the establishment and globalists with his bid to unseat minnesota's democrat congresswoman ilhan omar. >> i'm running for congress because our leaders have sold us out. we have to fight for freedom. we have to protect our communities. we have to restore what it means to be an american citizen. we have to globalism. pete: royce joins us now. thanks so much for being here. you kind of laid out why you are running for congress. lay out more. why do you want to be the congressman from minnesota? >> thanks for having me. i appreciate it happy saturday morning to you all.

our nation is in the 12th hour. that's the reality. and there is a crisis of leadership and the result of that crisis is that the american people are getting scammed, right? globalists elected officials that they have financed. alongside the administrative state have conspired to devalue american citizenship. and as an american citizen it offends me. >> when you say you are both a populist and anti-globalist how would you describe your political philosophy to people out there? >> i would say that freedom has to be the corner stone of our american values because it is a corner stone of our american values. and in order to bring this country back to where it needs to be, we have to restore our faith in god and our national honor. and everything about globalism rejects that idea. you know, we're living in a time where a woman can stand up before the world government summit there in dubai and say the phrase new world order with

no fear. this idea, you know, is predicated around one agenda to attack the working class. to take away the independence and sovereignty of the middle class, the working class. and the middle market as well. all of it is intended to create a new society and everything about it is inappropriate and anti-american. pete: covid has only accelerated all of it as an excuse to do even more. you are running against or hope to win the republican primary to run against ilhan omar. what has she done for the district and the country? >> well, ilhan is in on it for sure. she is a puppet of the establishment. and one of the most predatory cycle scams you could say that's being run socially on people in my district even is, in the community i come from is this idea that socialism is by default anticorporate. it's not anticorporate. the state is the highest form of government and when you seek or

aim to merge the state and corporation at the global scale, it's the highest form of corporatism. and this whole bernie sanders progressive left, you know, movement, socialist poppism and running the three card monty and i reject that as well. there is nothing that will come out of globalism other than a loss of faith in god, antihumanism. transhumannism. and, you know, a wayward and moral decay. pete: royce, can you win? it's a tough district. >> i have faith in god. and i believe that his power can do anything. and, you know, the reality is many people have voted democrat in my district for a very long time. but i believe they see the scam or they are starting to see the scam, starting to see what the liberals and what the democrats have promoted has not yielded results. inflation is on the rise. crime and public safety is a huge, huge concern here in minneapolis. and ultimately, their economic place in the world. their economic sovereignty is in

dire straits from all angles. and their freedoms. basic freedoms, 65% of democrats polled during the pandemic that they would -- that they would lock unvaccinated people in their homes. so i think people are very afraid and a lot of people voted democrat didn't want to take the vaccine. some i know personally but felt they were forced to because of economic pressure. >> yeah, if you don't have economic security. physical security and medical freedom, that should force you to look somewhere else. recognize white, thank you so much for coming on. >> godspeed. appreciate it? >> god speed. pete: godspeed indeed. up next one dr. fauci interview not aging well. >> she has had the flu for 14 days. should she get a flu shot. >> no. if she got the flu 14 days she is as protected as anybody can be. the best evenings is to be infected yourself. pete: he said what in 2004. dr. nicole saphier said that's an honest fauci before he became

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♪ ♪ she has had the flu for 14 days should she get a flu shot. >> no. if she has had the flu 14 days no she is as protected. >> she shouldn't get the shot. >> she doesn't need it because it's the most potent vaccination is getting infected yourself. rachel: believe it or not that was dr. anthony fauci but with an entirely different response to natural immunity when discussing the flu shot. so what has changed? bill. will: he was so definitive. joining us now with reaction is fox news contributor dr. nicole saphier. good morning, dr. saphier. so. >> good morning, guys. >> answer the question that rachel asked. what's changed? >> first of all, that video, i believe was 2004.

that was even before the 2009 h1n1 pandemic when we saw that people who survived the spanish flu nearly a century before had protection from h1n1 in 2009. the concept of natural immunity is not new. the thing that i can say that was likely a more honest dr. fauci who followed the science a bit more. his entanglement with ecohealth and their relationship with the wuhan institute of virology has probably come into play in the course of the pandemic. the entire pandemic has been politicized. but, when it comes to natural immunity, we have to remember it comes in two parts here. so, first of all, just because you have been infected by one variant or strain of influenza virus or coronavirus it doesn't mean it will protect from you future variants and strains. however, that being said, natural immunity itself, you are exposed to the entire virus. so you have more of a robust and a universal response. when you get vaccinated that's more of a targeted area of the virus. the biggest problem here that i have had with dr. fauci and the

cdc and others is that they have not acknowledged natural immunity when we know that immunity does provide some protection. early on it was an unknown how long that protection would be and how strong it would be. but we are two years into this now. and we have over 200 studies demonstrating the protection from natural immunity. two more studies just came out this week from sweden and qatar showing that reinfection and severity of illness is marketedly decreased with natural immunity up to 20 months after infection. and also they show that with the alpha and delta variants, it is very strong with omicron we know it decreases like the study on the vaccine. study qatar immunity against the omicron variant then the data coming out of the israel on the boosters. pete doctor, why even know is he still unwilling to talk about natural immunity when he was so definitive about it in 2004? it's the question we are all

asking each other, why? >> it's really hard. rachel: is it because of big pharma and because he has ties to that or is it because he, you know, wanted everybody to take the vaccine for some reason, he thought people, i don't know, or is it because of the ties that he -- his institute had to gain of function research that was coming out of that lab? what is it? what's your guess? >> i can tell you as medical professional scientists we do have to disclose any industry ties. there is nothing anything blatantly obvious that i'm aware of his ties to pharma. the message out of white house the mantra has been vaccination, vaccination, vaccination. they have been -- had such tunnel vision that they in my opinion if they deviated off of that by even acknowledging natural immunity they felt that would cause some people not to get the vaccinates seen and unfortunately that's a problem. that's a big problem. and this isn't about -- this isn't about punishment. this is about accountability. holding those accountable who

had decision-making authority. time for dr. fauci to retire at this point. we know he has been heavily influenced by his ties. i further call on cdc director walensky to retire at this point. they have demonstrated they are pliable and heavily influenced politically that is not what this country needs moving forward. rachel: i think it's interesting that you said the studies coming out of sweden and qatar. look at all this covid money we had complete lack of curiosity on our government's bureaucrat part to make those studies here in america. why are we depending on qatar? it shows that they are just not interested anyway. dr. saphier we thank you. that's a whole nother segment. rachel: all our covid money. will: thank you, dr. saphier. >> thanks, guys. will: we reached out to the national institute of infectious allergies for statement did not hear back. woke world after all one disney employee running for congress silent majority that disagrees

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will: woke move to condemn florida's new parental rights law. claiming it's their mission for the law to be struck down. do they really know what's in it my next guest says most disney

employees disagree the house of mouse's decision. current disney employee and florida congressional candidate jose joins us now. great to see you this morning. you are a disney employee. take me inside the company. what kind of support is there among the employee base for the stance that disney has taken? >> if i recall, thank you for having me on your show today. i'm excited to be here. listen my phone has been off the hook. i can't answer enough questions from customers all over people from california people i have never heard from don't know people say thank you for taking a stance. a lot of people are mad because disney itself has misrepresented this bill by saying it's a don't say gay bill. this bill does not say don't say gay. it does not say don't say transgender. this bill says do not talk to our kids about sex. that's what it is. we are trying to protect our kids. will: yeah, to that point. let's put that up on the screen it's a fact check jose on what the bill does and does not do.

it does ban classroom instruction about sexuality in kindergarten through 3rd grade. it does not ban casual discussions about gender and sexuality. for example a teacher talking about their partner mentioning they have a partner. that's not banned. what is banned, teaching them about gender identity when they are seven years old. it doesn't mention the word gay anywhere. it does not require school to notify their parents if their child is gay or trans. jose, i'm fascinated you are a disney cast member. disney employee. many are reaching out to you. you point out -- you think a lot of people inside the company share your position, share the position of floridians, then why is disney taking this stance? >> listen, i have been saying it all week lock, it's basically a fact of a squeaky wheel gets the grease there is a vocal group lgbtq community they wanted to make their voices heard. conservatives for the most part, you know what? even people moderate that are in favor of this bill, this law that thank god governor desantis

signed into law. we just have been silent. we need, to you know, raise our voice. as a matter of fact, i can tell you that we're in the talks of planning a rally just to -- there is a lot of people that think -- they are just in denial that we are the silent majority. we are going show them we are in the talks of early stages of planning a rally so people know. the people in the left wing media and disney. they are going to hear our voices. they are going to know that we are the majority. and, you know, frankly, i have heard in the news that the state legislator and the governor are looking at self-governance for disney. you know, i think that disney has made a terrible miscalculation here for them to say that their goal so to repeal this law and to work with national and state organizations to achieve this, they are basically saying we want to get rid of the republican government in tallahassee and install a democratic elected officials. do you know what's going to happen if they do that? that means we are going to get big government, high taxes.

floridians, disney workers cannot afford higher taxes. the way that joe biden has the economy, it's not going to work. so unless disney recants their decision, absolutely should remove their self-governance. will: i have to wonder least. a company who belt business on families and children not taking a stand sexualized children you wonder what the calculation will be when it comes to fan base and customer base. that, i guess, will be up to everyone watching today. jose castillo, thank you so much for sharing your experience with us this morning. >> thank you. will: pete, over to you. pete: thank you, will. we begin with this in our headlines, alaska airlines leaving thousands of passengers stranded on the west coast as more than 120 flights are canceled while pilots picketover. more than 15,000 customers portland, seattle, l.a. and more were affected by the protest. the airline warned flight

cancellations could continue. and u.s. chamber of commerce said retail theft is a, quote, national crisis. the group is calling on lawmakers to act saying in a letter to congress, quote: these crimes are not victimless. no store should have to close because of theft. we call on policymakers to tackle this problem head on before it gets further out of control. and those are your headlines. rachel: let's turn to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth for our fox weather forecast. he is live from bass pro shops world fishing fair in missouri. rick? >> i am, rachel. it's such a good morning to be out here. we had some rain but it is finally gone. we will talk a little bit of weather right now. take a look at the weather map and show you what's going on. april second. not even april fools. can we talk about this temperatures in 30 in chicago. 35 is what it is right now.

39 in new york city. one storm cutting across the central part of the country. not a massive issue but to the north we are seeing some snow. snow falling again across parts of wisconsin. see some snow showers through chicago this morning. across areas of michigan. rain on the southern side of this although it's not too heavy but get ready because we have more severe weather coming again this week. this will be the third week in a row where we have got some severe weather that's going to break out across parts of the south. we are having a very active season. this was the most tornadoes in march since the year 2,000. so 22 years. a very active set up and that's going to continue with us again for monday and tools of this coming week. get ready for very big storms. including some tornadoes. that is going to be the case starting across parts of texas early next week and eventually by the time we get to wednesday over across areas over towards georgia. more severe weather coming across parts of the south. meanwhile another cold one across parts of the north. rachel, send it back to you. rachel: thank you, rick. well, shannon bream book motors

and daughters of the bible speak is out now. i did a live signing with her this week. go to foxnews.com for a copy. bring in sunshine. great for troubling times. great read. thank you, shannon, for putting this into the culture at this particular time. pete: what was your biggest take away from the book signing? >> shannon: people wanted to know how she started her career. she has a really interesting way that she started it and she started late in her, you know, into her 30's. she had another career going. decided to switch over told she wouldn't be good at it shame on you. she is amazing. she worked through that had a lot of great things to talk about she is somebody who lives her faith and this book is a testament what she wants to put out and to the universe. thank you shan upon. pete: the mothers and the daughters of the bible speak. rachel: best seller. this is going to be another big hit for her.

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rachel: welcome back to "fox & friends." the house, the u.s. house passing a bill to decriminalize marijuana nationwide. but as a growing number of kids fall victim to the opioid crisis, our next guest warns that legalizing weed like this will only put american families more at risk. here to protect our kids -- here now is protect our kids pac ceo and smart approaches to marijuana luke. i have to say welcome, i have to say as a parent i'm with you on this one. tell me your case for this. why is this a bad idea? >> good morning, thank you so much. it's a bad idea because marijuana legalization is about one thing and one thing only and that's money for big tobacco, big pharma and big alcohol and other drug addiction industries out there. we literally have altria largest back company in america.

put $2 billion into the industry. what are we seeing? i live in colorado first state to legalize marijuana. seeing more youth use of marijuana. seeing candies, cookies, gummies, ice creams laced with hypo tenancy marijuana. you hear marijuana you think that's a joint that's long gone. hypo tenancy concentrates our kids are getting into unprecedented levels. we are very concerned about that. rising rates of addiction across the country. what i'm trying to do is protect families and protect kids. with this vote or 00 more act we saw a gain of 40 votes against this bill. it almost didn't pass the house. we will continue to fight for families and kids they need to be protected during this unprecedented addiction epidemic our country is facing. rachel: so, our representatives, our lawmakers, they respond to voters. most parents i know do not agree with legalizing marijuana, common sense tells you it's just not a good idea for kids. why are these legislators voting for it? is the lobby for marijuana that

powerful right now or what -- or they think they will get younger voters? what's driving that? >> the biggest thing is the money. it's always about the money, especially in the swamp. big marijuana has hired of the top lobbying firms across d.c. to go into these folks' offices and give them lots of money. we see millions of dollars pouring into campaign accounts. that's why to your point i started protect our kids pac. i have dozens of moms and dads of kids who have either died from addiction or marijuana related deaths. or are dealing w. a addiction right now. and these parents are sick and tired of being ignored by their politicians and their representatives for people who have big pocket. like big tobacco and alcohol. we are giving a voice to the parents right now fed up with lax drug policies. it's time we get strong antidrug candidates who don't understand we don't need more drugs on our streets, we need less. rachel: give a voice to drug rehabilitation counselors i have talked to multiple those kind of

counselors and they said that marijuana is definitely a gateway drug. well, listen, there is a war on our children. we are glad you are out there fighting for them. thanks for joining us this morning, luke. >> thank you so much for having me. god bless you. rachel: god bless you. all right. well, texas border officials bust a driver accused of smuggling 76 migrants in a trailer. ahead how one border patrol policy is -- ♪simply irresistible♪ ♪ ♪ ♪simply irresistible♪ applebee's irresist-a-bowls are back.

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little whitney houston. pete: really nice. beautiful. i was thinking cleveland. rachel: really nice. pete: she has a beautiful voice. and, you know. rachel: is he a 90's. pete: talk about cleveland they don't have a quarterback. the lakers aren't going to make the play offs. will: amazing. rachel: amazing. pete: the favorites communist player him not making the playoffs. will: what do you mean no quarterback. >> pete: baker mayfield left. will: they have deshaun watson. pete: no problem there. if you are in cleveland i hope you are watching. i think cleveland is one of our biggest markets looking years ago at "fox & friends" markets. ton of viewers from cleveland. we love you and appreciate you spending your morning with us for sure. now get started with some news.

we begin this hour going straight to the border. senate democrats filling from the biden administration -- excuse me splitting from the biden administration over its decision to lift a major border policy. title 42 at the end of may. rachel: that's right. and senator joe manchin is calling it, quote a frightening decision as border patrol braces for a migrant surge unlike any other. you have seen them all. this is going to be worse than anything you have ever seen. will: alexandria hoff is live with washington from more. good morning, alexandra. >> good morning. especially with midterms in mind there are democrats who feel they have no choice but to speak out an all of this. senator joe manchin said we are nowhere prepared to deal with that influx. senator mark kelly saying this is the wrong decision and senator kyrsten sinema says it shows a lack of understanding about the crisis the a you are oborder. now, title 42 is a covid-related public health order started during the trump administration that authorized the quick expulsion of migrants.

the centers for disease control announced title 42 will be lifted on may 23rd. the white house says that gives them some time. >> it requires the implementation of appropriate covid-19 mitigation protocols. also scaling up capacity and scaling up you know, resources. >> resources were already absent according to multiple customs and borders. in march alone 62,000 evaded agents. since october there have been more than 3,000 known got-aways. putting that in perspective, in the buyer 2021 fiscal year, there were 400,000. without title 42, the national border patrol council predicts mayhem. >> we expect the app. prehences to reach levels of 10,000, 12,000, we're not going to have any agents in the feel to patrol the border and when that happens, we are going to look at more like a million people that are going to get away. >> now, in preparation for the

influx of migrants, the department of homeland security will start vaccinating migrants at the goal of 6,000 a day, rachel, will, pete? rachel: thank you so much. instead of vaccinating not letting them in the first place? american people maybe they don't want to see it this is a much bigger problem than what is happening in ukraine. this is going to directly affect not just the border communities, but this surge of people coming from around the globe into our country when they lift this title 42 is going to absolutely change our country. this is -- this is the biggest story. pete: i agree with you. these numbers are already record breaking. 44,000 got-aways. border patrol and claimed asylum

which anybody can claim. we are already at 300,000 fiscal year 2022 if it stay once pass when brandon judd pointed out it will only go up. the way it is coming now in anticipation of title 42. wait until it is gone, 600, 700,000 got-aways meaning we know they got through without presenting themself to border patrol. and is he predicting they have even larger wave of people presenting themselves to border patrol. which means all the border patrol will be baby-sitting. will: tied up. pete: illegals coming across the border and even more wide open. it is absolute an abolition of our sovereignty. rachel: national security problem. will. pete: have no idea who these people are. will: got-aways only go up when tied one encounters. texas is one of these cities. mayor don mclaughlin was on earlier he said if title 42 is rescinded there is no plan to deal with the coming surge. >> you take this title 42 away,

the surge is going to be -- it will be an invasion. there is no other way to describe it other than that we are being told from people that we know there is 300 to 400,000 people waiting on the other side for it to go away. all of a sudden you will be looking at worse than the haitian crisis you saw back in september. i mean, you are going to see 30, 40,000 people a day. and the message it's going to send farther south into these other countries, you will see larger and larger caravans coming in way they are going to come across that border. complete total chaos invasion. there is no infrastructure down here and the government has no plan to handle this. rachel: will, this is happening at exactly the same time that so many of the poor and working class in america are just struggling to put food on the table. and all of a sudden you will have all these other people coming in who also need help. this is going to strain the ability of the government which, by the way, i think is actually trying to make people more dependent on them anyway. this is going to affect their ability to address the very

basic needs of americans. this is troubling, troubling story. i don't know if it's the war in ukraine, but i don't know how they can be distracted from this. i don't know -- i don't know how. pete: certainly not the war they haven't done anything about it from the beginning. will: right. pete: it's been a agreement green light.think about this tho horse whipped never did still on desk duty. they tried to step in one time to prevent someone coming in illegally and condemned by joe biden. new footage i think we are going to show it now. 76 illegal is crammed into a trailer. this is dash cam footage. texas border agents busted the driver who is smuggling 76 illegals in a trailer. you think we are not going to see more of that? how inhumane is that great covid protocols as well too. going to vaccinate them. great.

rachel: not to mention the drugs and the child sex trafficking. we have basically handed our border over to the cartels. will: you are right, pete it sun forgiven that those border patrol agents were branded as racist, akin to plantation slave drivers whipping illegal immigrants. of course they are absolved of that absurdity and no one has apologized. not jen psaki. not the president of the united states. no one has apologized for slandering those law enforcement officers in the united states of america. it's unbe forgiven. pete: or just release the investigation. they said it would be done in days or weeks. it's been six months now. rachel: this whole show we have been doing which has been going to the why. why is this happening? not the situation with the border patrol but the entire -- the entire thing. like why is our government or this administration allowing this -- they know exactly what's going to happen with title 42. as you said, pete, they have been letting -- the border has

been open since trump left office essentially. so why is this happening? is this because they believe that these are future voters? what is going on? pete: or is it that they don't believe in borders all together? if you are a globalist and internationalist, humanitarian, no person is illegal. it's our responsibility to welcome these people in. will: you are a citizen of the world. pete: you are a citizen of the world. who are we to turn them back. every claim for asylum must be legitimate. rachel: there is something out there. there is a power play here. pete: of course. but you don't belief in yourself? why would you stop -- i don't know. it's a great question. will: not to frustrate you this morning, rachel but introduce another why. rachel: just here to set me off, will. will: why was the media all of a sudden all of a sudden red cnn and "new york times" and "the washington post" why all of a sudden is legitimate story to cover bill maher talked about

that. watch. >> so the "new york post" got ahold of what was in the computer. and, you know, because the "new york post" is a republican paper and the "new york times" and "the washington post" are the democrat paper. that's where we are again, kind of. and the republican paper twitter wouldn't -- canceled their account. can't even report on this story. and now two years later the "new york times" and "the washington post" have come around to say okay, there was something there. it looks like the left wing media is buried the story because it wasn't part of their narrative and that's why people don't trust the media. rachel: it was the dirtest political trick in american history. they suppressed that story and then you go back to the why -- why now? is it that -- and by the way, sohrab ahmari on earlier working for the "new york post" at the time. he said even in the reporting now, pete, they are not telling the whole story. they are not telling the

bobulinski stuff. they are leaving out anything that implicates joe biden when we know that this story is all about joe biden. pete: pointed out yesterday on "fox & friends" when you said it was the monica lewenski scandal and not the bill clinton scandal. this is the hunter biden scandal but not the joe biden scandal. you made that point and i thought it was fantastic. the least cynical answer to the why is that there are pending charges against hunter biden if they don't update their viewers then they are going to be behind on that. more kin sell version is basically con with joe biden and this is intrux into things incapable of running in the future. could be a little bit of both of course bill maher is there. god bless them for saying things that the left needs to hear. they totally suppressed the story because it doesn't fit their narrative. they are counting on the fact one story there, two stories there two years later it doesn't matter it doesn't affect their reputation with their viewers who are already inclined to believe everything the "new york times" or "the washington post" says. rachel: it changed an election.

will: absolutely. pete, do you think there will be criminal justice accountability? you know, between the two explanations you gave, one could be considered the more conspiratorial and i don't use that in any -- i don't use that in any type of derogatory sense. pete: of course i don't take it as such. will: conspiratorial thought has had a great thought. they are ready to move on from joe biden or the other is the papers can't be if a far behind. do you think there is a real prospect for criminal justice accountability for hunter biden which should lead to accountability with the rest of the family, do you have real optimism that could be the case? pete: i don't know. i have read the same reporting you have that investigations are ongoing. he didn't pay his taxes for years and years. if i didn't pay my taxes for years and years. rachel: hunter? pete: by extension possibly joe if he is getting a cut of it or shared bank accounts.

and if what you can do with foreign governments is limited, if you are not registering in certain -- there is a lot of potential areas and ways in which i guess it all depends on whether prosecutors actually want to get to the truth or not. maybe it will take a midterm election to get investigations on capitol hill that actually dig into it. but, i have heard enough reporting that point to the fact that he eventually be indicted that this could be getting ahead of it. again, it's all speculation. rachel: this is the joe biden scandal. we know for a fact that hunter biden was paying for some of joe bidenens bills. they had keys. joe biden and jill, to his office with the chinese communist -- with the chinese businessman who has ties to the chinese communist government. joe is the big guy and by implications compromised. because this money come from pretty dirty sources. this is a big deal. will: it is. we have some other big deals for you this morning. starting with this with your headlines. a gay disney employee slamming the company's stance on florida's new parental rights

law. gary saying quote the purposely misleading nickname don't say gay was a trojan horse it drew people in and got them fired up because they thought the bill was attacking gay people. statement coming after disney said the law, quote, should never have been passed. amazon workers on staten island became the company's first unionized warehouse in the u.s. employees celebrating with champagne after more than 2600 workers voted in favor of forming a union. amazon not so happy, releasing a statement saying, quote. we are disappointed with the outcome of the election in staten island because we believe having a direct relationship with the company is best for all of our employees. today, colin kaepernick will continue his pretense of a pursuit of an nfl return. the free agent quarterback will throw an exhibition during halftime at the university of michigan spring game today. he will be throwing to eligible

wide receivers and scotts will be allowed to watch. latest pretense at an attempt to come back into the nfl and it's been five years. pete: pretense teleprompter. will: numerous ways to find their way back into the nfl. few years ago a tryout he was a no show for. he was a know show for and popped up across town for another one that he was going to control. colin kaepernick does not want to be back in the nfl. if he did it would be weird that he was saying the nfl was a modern day plantation of modern slaves. why then would he want to return to that plantation? it's all nonsense in pursuit of the brand of colin kaepernick. rachel: all about making money. i wonder if some of the stuff he said regarding racial issues and the national anthem and all of that was all about just making money because he certainly has made quite a lot of money off of that.

will: wherever it began that's where it is today. pete: let's get to -- i need to issue a correction to the city of cleveland in case you were watching the top of this hour and were triggered by my comments i said that baker mayfield is gone. we discussed it, will. you clarified he wants to leave. will: i thought maybe i missed a major trade so i didn't say anything in the moment. i was like dang, i went to bed early last night. baker hasn't been traded yet but he wants to be traded because they have traded for deshaun watson. pete: once you say you want to leave a team. will: he is gone they have to find. pete: what about aaron rodgers. will: green bay packer. pete: there is football update if you have any questions email will at -- no. [laughter] pete: ukraine's president not backing down. exclusive interview with fox news he says he won't settings for anything less than victory over russia. representatives kelly armstrong and debbie lesko react to that next. rachel: will smith resigns from

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♪ ♪ >> if we don't have heavy weapons, how can we defend ourselves? how can we fight against one of the strongest armies in the world? our military, our people, our soldiers are stronger than the russian federation. but they have a lot more weapons. heavy weapons will give us an opportunity to talk with them at the negotiation table. pete: ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy in a sit-down with fox news with our own bret baier urging the u.s. and allies to provide more weapons to the war effort. zelenskyy adding that he won't settle for anything less than victory in his country. here now to react north dakota congressman kelly armstrong and congresswoman debbie lesko of arizona. thank you both for being here. debby, let me start with you.

are we doing what we should be in support of the ukrainians at this point? we are hearing conflicted reports even here on the ground they are saying it's not getting there as fast as they want. the pentagon saying it's already been delivered. what's your take? >> well, biden should have provided this long time ago before we were in the middle of the war so that the ukrainians could have the equipment they needed to defend themselves. i'm glad that biden is finally coming around to giving them the equipment they need, the military equipment, the humanitarian aid, but it's a little late. he should have done it before as republicans had urged him to do. pete: kelly, what's our end state? what's the american end state? you hear americans talk about victory but he has been willing to negotiates donbas in crimea but not giving up other territory. what's our preferred end state in our interest? >> our preferred end state is

that a democracy in area of the world short on democracies over the course of history comes out ahead. i think president zelenskyy hit it best. the more you give russia. the more their appetite grows. that has shown throughout history. you know, i agree with debbie. are we doing enough? no, we should do more and do it faster. i mean, unfortunately, that's not a unique circumstance of the federal government but we have got do whatever we can i agree with president zelenskyy. if this goes the wrong way, this isn't the last we are going to hear of putin. pete: pete kelly, what would more look like in your mind. >> we have a lot of ways -- first of all, speed up the supply chain and bureaucracy. get things there we obviously could have done stuff quicker before this started. now we have to do everything we can to streamline the deploying get them. both those fighting and those that need the humanitarian aid.

pete: switch gears at home debbie lesko the inflation rate highest in 40 years, food, gas, everything. what is the impact on the people you represent of what is now effectively run away inflation? >> oh my gosh, since biden has been in office, inflation has gone through the roof. prices have gone through the roof. if the phoenix metropolitan area. we have the highest inflation in the entire country. it's 10.9%. almost 11%. people are feeling this in their pocketbooks. everywhere i go, gas pumps they have that little sticker that said biden did this. our gas is at $4.70 a gallon it sun sustainable. and biden is a disaster. pete: let me stay with you representative les co-for a reza

second. when you talk to voters democrat and republican where do they place the blame? at the don't buy biden's bs quite frankly. he says one thing and does another. he has had all-ought war on oil and gas in america. there was just polling in arizona. he is not doing well in arizona. democrats and biden have bad policies for america and for arizona. pete: representative armstrong, the congresswoman just mentioned oil and gas. you represent north dakota which produces the most oil in the united states after texas. it's true this administration declared war on that industry from day one. now we're seeing prices spike. is there a way out of this? >> yeah there is a way out of it unleash american energy. i mean, i think not just the united states and not just some of our friends in washington, d.c., but i think the whole world is recognizing that if you allow us to unleash our capacity in states like north dakota,

that's not just great for my state, it's great for the country. do you know what else? it's great for world stability. we don't have to worry about bad actors controlling the price of the market. but, when you work as hard as this administration has, by the way, before they took office, even during the campaign, to make it known to oil and gas producers in the united states, that you are not our friends. we are going to do everything we can to hinder your production of this such valuable resource. you can't just turn it on immediately. they need to send signals to the market. they need to send signals to the investigators and need to let us do what we do best in north dakota and that's feed the world. pete: instead sending nothing but signals to the religion of climate change and their fellow zealots and can't do common sense things to provide for our energy and security and frankly energy dominance. thank you both for being here. >> thank you. pete: appreciate it a familiar face back in the race. the office sarah palin is running for as she returns to politics.

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will: back with your headlines, former alaska governor sarah palin plans to announce to run for congress. previously held by the late alaska congressman done young. young was the longest serving republican in the history of the house. he served 49 years before his death last month. palin says she is running because, quote: america is at a tipping point. rapper kanye west is reportedly quote going away to get help. page 6 reporting a source close to the kardashians saying for the sake of the kids kanye has told kim he is not making any public appearances or

inflammatory social media statements and he will go away somewhere to get better rapper just panned on instagram after attacks on kim kardashian's new boyfriend. it's unclear if he plans to attend a treatment facility. governor ron desantis is backing the blue in florida. desantis signing a bill that gives $5,000 bonuses, to new law enforcement recruitment. >> that may mean that you leave seattle or chicago or some of these places and come to brevard county sheriff's office. but it could also mean that you are somebody who is in florida trying to determine what you want to do with your life. >> the bill also establishes a scholarship program to help new officers pay for the law enforcement academy. and those are your headlines. rachel, over to you. rachel: thank you, will. montana family is fighting school district for not letting special needs daughter graduate high school. emily is an 18-year-old jr. on

the cheer squad so adorable and repeated kindergarten after having open heart surgery, seizures and lukemia. now, because she turns 19 before september, she is not allowed to start her senior year but now her entire community and the u.s. senator are rallying behind her. emily and her parents join us now. so, jana and james, i'm going to starts with you; how about you james, i'm going to indicate that emily has down syndrome. she started school a little late because she had surgeries like so many children with down syndrome have when they are very young. hers is open heart like my daughter's was. why is the district being such a stickler about this? she is 19. it's not like she is 28. >> you know, that question gets asked all over the community. it's amazing. took a huge amount of covid money and gave themselves enormous bonuses and yet keep talking about money.

out of their mouth if we allow just one in we need to allow all of the rest of them which is heart breaking for us. rachel: of course, she has gone all this time through high school. made all these friends, and shear she comes to the end a and they want to tell her she can't even graduate. mom, januaryna, del me, you said you waited six months, you tried to be nice about it and then you went. >> spoken like a mama bear you said i went scorched earth. what does that mean to you? >> well, that was actually a term of david's. rachel: pappa bear. >> platforms that we have. i have actually went mama bear when we spoke for the second time at a meeting and were not recognized at all and so i was like that's it, we're going to take this public, get the support of our friends and community and we didn't realize how much support we were going to get o. rachel: do you think this support will turn things around

for emily? >> oh, it already has. after six months, once we went public, we finally had the superintendent reaching out and he hadn't done that during that whole process. rachel: is emily going to be completing her senior year now? >> we still don't know. so, we had special informational meeting, board meeting with the district and the board. and this decision, i think, is going to be made in the next couple of weeks so we don't know. rachel: at the start of this segment emily, -- star of the segment. emily, tell me about your senior year and a little bit about yourself. >> i want to graduate because i want my friends to know that i'm really determined and keep on going the way i wanted. rachel: you are a cheerleader at that school. so you love your school, right? >> yes, i do.

of. rachel: what do you want to be when you graduate? what are your aspirations for life? >> i want to be country star my dream job i want to have. it's been really hard. just keep on going and keep that going for me. rachel: i know it's been hard but i know you are feel so much love from your community, aren't you? >> yeah, i am. >> i'm going to tell you what, i'm going to try not to tear up. you are amazing. at love hope and what can i expect from my little daughter who also has down syndrome only two and a half. i hope she grows up to be as beautiful and as articulate as full of energy and school spirit as you do and we wish you all the best and i hope that this situation turns out for the best. you deserve to finish out your senior year after all the work

that you have done more than, you know, putting more effort than most people have had to to get where you are at. mom, dad, any last words? >> you know, they have reached out to back road channels to say that we would be happy to allow emily her senior year as an exception but not to change our school policy a lou that to anybody else. and we have discussed as a family and that's not something that we're going to do. we're going to use this platform to make them change their policy here at the school district to get this taken care of for all the other parents and kids like emily that don't have that platform. rachel: that's right. absolutely. the way we treat those who are most vulnerable, our special needs community says a lot about who we are as a culture. thanks for sharing your story. we are rooting for you and praying for you and we hope that we get some common sense out of that school district. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. rachel: god bless you both. that was james, emily and her

mom januaryna. we reached out for a statement from the billings west high school but have not heard back. hope they do the right thing here. coming up, will smith resign from the academy after that infamous oscar slap. but should there be stronger consequences for the best actor winner. lawrence joneses just came back from chris rock's first comedy show after the attack and he joins us next.

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ask your doctor about botox® today. will: oscar smack down continues this morning as will smith resigns from the academy. his actions were painful and inexcusable. promises to accept any other consequences the board deems appropriate. lawrence jones just came back from a chris rock comedy show. i think it was his first comedy show since this moment in boston and he joins us now. tell me about that chris rock show, that appearance, tell me your reaction it's clear that he was emotionally impacted. he kind of teared up for the first part. he did not want to distract from the performance that he already put together because, you know, they spend months on that material. it's going to end up on netflix.

so to change the entire performance to center around that he didn't want to do it. he made it very clear he is going to address the matter eventually. and it's going to be funny. interestingly enough, there has been all these reports about things that were happening behind the scenes and that real and that chris rock got together and there was this kum ba yah. that was not true. he hasn't made a statement or anything like that where he .when he addressed it we will know. he hasn't had anything behind the scenes to clear that up. >> at the show it was a little emotional. it wasn't very in-depth. what you did gather is not quite the rok conciliation painted in public. >> exactly. and he wanted to be about that performance, the performance was funny he went the political klatt class. political party. he went after wokeness and every political group. a lot of folks thought it was funny. >> i know you talked to people

in the crowd aired on the fox news channel. were they pro-chris rock? >> pretty much everyone is disgusted with will and disgusted with will and things that chris rock is a classy person. but they also enjoyed the performance. had you some of the liberals didn't know they were going to a chris rock performance and said he didn't get the genders right. a little tone deaf. i said this is chris rock. okay? will: he is classy and he can take a punch. lawrence: you can almost took one up there. will: about to see if i could be as classy as chris rock. lawrence spoke to retired nypd officer served 29 years. and he watched the city's attitude toward police change. let's take a listen to that conversation between lawrence and chris welsh. >> going back to where people are afraid to walk down the streets gunfire. >> seventh police officer shot this year. >> child shot in our city. >> a man steps forward with a gun and starts firing. >> how bad is it going to get?

>> unless we have complete shift of attitude by district attorney's office and more importantly by the people of new york, it's not going to change. >> lawrence what his officer was -- tell you about the reasons he is leaving. well, is he retiring. he is sick of it. he still loves the job but this nonsense that's happening within the police department. i think he has reached his limit. you got to remember this is a guy that started 25 years ago when it was really, really bad and cleaned it up and now he is saying that what we are seeing now is worse than it was before. and i think he is right. i think they feel emboldened. he said when there were cop shootings back in the day, it was just because of the job of itself of being a cop. people being targeted cops and they don't feel any fear that they are going to be prosecuted as a result. also brought up one case about

the wife reported to the cops that he a gun and was threatening her? they put in for a warrant. da bragg decided they weren't going to get that warrant to go arrest the guy. the guy ended up months later killing someone and then put the warrant in. reached out to bragg and get a interview. released a statement saying they are doing everything in their power and that crime is on the rise everywhere. the second part is true. crime suspect everywhere in liberal cities with the same policies that he has implemented. will: put that video back up quickly the vo of lawrence and officer welch walking not to -- i'm sorry to point that out but lawrence, you look like you are 10 feet tall. lawrence: i am 65. when we are standing next to each other it's about the same. will: the same when you and i are next to each other. >> not making fun of the officers. you, i thought. all right. cross-country airs tonight. lawrence, what's coming up on the show. >> big stuff. crime in america.

obviously talk about chris rock stuff and any updates that we got for ukraine we are going to do that. will: all right. we will be watching cross-country tonight, tune in 10:00 p.m. see lawrence jones. thanks, man. lawrence: you got it, bro. will: free money being handed out in l.a. 1,000 residents will get $1,000 for a month with no strings attached. and bass pro shops celebrating their 50th anniversary this year and rick reichmuth will be with us live in missouri with the founder of bass pro shops to celebrate. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ pete: bass pro shops celebrating 50th anniversary this year. will: to kick off the celebration they are hosting the world's fishing fair. it's a five day event all about fishing, boating, conservation and the great outdoors. pete: fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth joins us live from the bass pro shops national headquarters in springfield, missouri. rick? rick: yeah, so not only is it a 5-day event here at the store, days of concerts.

johnny morris you put on a really good event. >> we have been having a big time. it's still going on. rick, thank you for coming to be with us at the world fishing fair in springfield, missouri. rick: i will tell you what, i have been doing stuff with you guys for, i don't know, 10, 15 years. every time everybody says johnny morris' vision. johnny morris' vision i never met you until about 10 minutes ago. i'm thrilled to meet you. this whole thing is your idea and it started 50 years ago. how did you, when you started that, go from a small store that you had by the lake to this? >> passion. a lot of family this area being blessed, springfield, this area has been my home and it's considered one of the top fishing areas in the whole world for fresh water fishing or beautiful rivers and streams and lakes and i just -- my mom and dad got me and my sisters into float fishing and then the lakes came. so i just always loved fishing. i fished in a tournament in 1970 and really got just excited

about professional bass fishing. good quality gear from the other fishermen i met. we decided this shop and decided to show it bass pro shops because it was real descriptive of what we wanted to do gear for bass fishermen and of course over the last 50 years it's grown. the name of our store here is outdoor world. a little something for everybody, whether it's camping or boating or fishing, hunting. everything to do with the great outdoors. rick: i'm looking right over here, behind you there is an aquarium. one of the world's biggest aquariums you opened up. this isn't just a place to come and buy your stuff which can you do amazing stuff. also a place where families can come for activity. >> learn more about conservation, nature, all the things we can do together. also we try to share the amazing role that sports men and women, hunters and anglers have played in conservation since the days of roosevelt and autobahn.

>> i'm glad you brought that up. people think bass pro shops you are a conservationist. and that's really kind of one of your missions i don't think that story bass pro shops. why that matters to you. >> it matters personally also selfishly also for our business because if we weren't good stewards of our land, our air, water, and the fish and wildlife, there just wouldn't be bass pro shops. that comes down to conservation, one word. and we since it's our obligation not just me but people in our company. most of the folks on our team love the outdoors, too. just like me. they love serving our customers. and they realize hey, it's up to us. we have [blank] blessed from these things. and it's our obligation to try to give back. and our new catalog that came out this year 50th anniversary we celebrated more than we have in the past.

over the decade given 10% of earnings in excess of that actually go back to conservation. and i just have to salutes all of our fellow anglers out there and hunters because we have the surround that program. we have the outdoor fund. every can you remember that comes in the shop if they want donate their change to conservation it generates a lot of revenue. you asked about conservation, too. most people don't realize that hunters and anglers voted years ago they almost self-levied attack so every plug in here or any shop, fishing lures. robs, reels, shotgun shells hunting fishing gear there is a 10% federal excise tax that every customer pays for it and it goes back to conservation. rick: listen, congratulations to you on 50 years. it's such a great american story. you have done amazing working. if you want to enjoy, this come here also just follow along on

social and on bass pro shops.com. so good to meet you. >> nice to meet you. i rambled on. >> no way. will: thank you. more "fox & friends" coming up. ♪

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they're just waking up there. will: a shot of river tower, and the sun comes up over south texas. good morning. pete: good morning. will: i've got something on my mind. [laughter] pete: we're glad you're here, and by the way, if you missed it, it's back. the national anthem, we played it again at 5 a.m., hopefully your dvrs go back that far with your viewers pictures. please keep sending them in, friends@foxnews.com, we love to show your pictures with our nation's anthem. rachel: i have a photo for you, this is my daughter, maria victoria, she's turning 12 the -- well, she turned 12 yesterday on april pools day. in the you have duffy if family tradition, we celebrate for many days. pete: how many days? rachel: special breakfast, and the next day -- it kind of goes on all week. will: she's adorable. she's a wonderful girl.

there she is with my sister and brother-in-law's dog. she's a sweet girl. she loves animals, she loves her siblings, and i love you. pete: happy birthday, indeed. and she's holding a dog named boone, which is my son's name. [laughter] i named my sons after animals. hunter, boone, rex. there you go. all right. well, we've covered a ton of topics this morning -- rachel: we have. pete: a lot of them very important. this one top on that list as well. so since the beginning we've all been trying to figure out where did covid-19 come from. we know the official line was a wet market, and then more and more information came out. i believe it was tom cotton, the first one to say what about this virology lab that's a couple miles away from where it broke out? and that was immediately dismissed. we're getting more information right now from a unlikely source. "vanity fair" now coming out with an article that talks about the origins, the funneling and anthony fauci. -- the funding.

this shouldn't happen, is the title. inside the nonprofit at the center of the lab league controversy. as a part of that article, there's an e-mail used as evidence from february of 2020, right at the beginning, obtained by "vanity fair" that allegedly shows peter daseck. here it is. you, me and him should not sign this statement. it has some distance from us and, therefore, doesn't work in a counterproductive way. we'll put it out in a way so we maximize an independent voice. will, as you pointed out earlier, he didn't want his fingerprints on it, but they wanted the lab leak immediately dismissed, and now there's e-mail evidence of it as well. will: he wanted the conspiracy theory but he didn't want his name on it. let's bring in the host of "unfiltered with dan bonn gene

owe" to break it all down -- dan bongino. what do you make of the report in. >> you know, it's spike striking to me. do you catch of the similarities between the lab leak story and the hunter biden laptop story? rachel: yes. >> see, i knew it, rachel, we have this esp. i'm telling you, think about it, right? so you have a story that would be damaging to the leftist political narrative, right? a set of so-called experts work as intermediaries to squash the story. they feed it to a bunch of tier one-level clowns in the media that do no reporting at all and haplessly repeat it. the story damages donald trump. wash, rinse, repeat, right? now, the media's supposed to stop this stuff. let me show you what i'm talking about here. in april we get these e e-mails in april of 2020. "vanity fair," this stuff is new, but we have this since

april 2020. the lab leak is the most likely hypothesis, right? a bunch of experts get together and say, hey, even though the evidence is overwhelming that a lab that studies coronaviruses in an area of china that had a coronavirus outbreak that has, what is it, cell phone data around there indicating they may have shut down the lab because of some type of accident afterwards, we've got to shut that down. the gullible media, because donald trumped had said it was probably a lab leak from china, then picks up the expert stuff, uses fact checkers to squash anyone who speaks the truth. tell we how this exact same thing didn't happen with the hunter biden story. a laptop shows up signed by -- yes, i do. i keep it handy to drive jesse watters crazy. here's the hunter biden receipt is signed by hunter biden, billed to hunter biden with hunter biden's address and phone number on the thing, and a group of experts like the daszak crew

says, jumps in and says that's not real. the don't be clown media goes, oh, yeah, that's not real, scooby, and they write the story, and it magically goes away. the the exact same story. will: there's one more parallel. it's the previously untouchable story in both cases now seems to be touchabling by the mainstream media. new york times, cnn now looking in or acknowledging the existence of the hunter biden story, and vanity "vanity fair" reporting on the cover-up of covid. why are those stories getting the green light now? >> the why always -- i say this on my show all the time, why matters. anybody can report the news. media covers the stuff the up for the left, that's not even a mystery. even knows the media's a group of activists. beautiful question. because there's no political damage. there's the moveon.org theory, right? think about bill clinton -- rachel, that was a brilliant talking point.

pete said it too, i'm dead serious. it was the clinton scandal. the lewinsky scandal, did you notice what they did with that? that whole group of leftists said drag it out, drag it out, and then when the damaging facts finally come out, they actually put out a web site called moveon.org. time to move on. we've already covered this. they did the same thing with benghazi, with the irs scandal. listen, it's evil, but it's strategically genius. crag it out -- drag it out until the public gets tired of it. it workings. they do it, yes, that's will's answer, because it works. think about it. right now they're going to report openly about the hunter biden thing because there's probably an indictment coming out, and they can't ignore official court proceedings, they'd look like idiots, and they're like, what are you talking about? we reported on it. and now there's no damage to be

done relative to before the election. guys, listen, they rigged that election through the media, the fact checkers and social media. the polling data's crystal clear, this election came through, the day is crystal clear this election would have likely turned out differently if the media and fact checkers and social media didn't rig it through information war fare. rachel: it's the biggest scandal in american history. it changed american history literally. >> no question. rachel: no question about it. by the way, you said the gullible media? i would say the complicit media. >> yeah, you're right. rachel: they're totally complicit9 in this. there's no way you can graduate with a -- in fact, i would say a freshman journalist could look at both of these stories, the wuhan lab story and the hunter biden laptop story and go, yeah, there's smoke here. we have to investigate. >> you're right. i was actually going to make this point and i forgot when will -- you know, some guys

falls on the sidewalk if front of you, you walk past and don't help, bad move. malfeasance, the guy falls, goes to get up and you punch him in the face. the media's doing actual malfeasance. being gullible, it's a dopey word, you're right. s this is malfeasance. they are intentionally manipulating the political course of the country to do the will of far-left activists. this is not a mistake. rachel: imagine being donald trump right now. imagine being donald trump, how you'd feel now that they're admitting this. you've probably known this all along, that the hunter biden story was real. but now you're, you know, he's at mar-a-lago, and somebody with early onset demen shah is sitting in the white house. >> a dossier verified by no one who every single source says i didn't say that, that was bar talk. and then you got a laptop with hunter biden's address and phone number with a guy saying hunter

biden dropped it off, no, it's not his laptop. that's another guy's laptop. pete: russian disinformation. ray a ray you have a big show tonight. -- rachel:. tell us about it. >> i've got pete on, which i always love. we're going to do some video comparisons between joe and kamala, who who's worse -- pete: maybe the answer is who's better. [laughter] >> i put them on the spot. three shots too. but most importantly, why are they so obsessed with the kids in school? this transgender, lgbtq ideology in school, why do they want to sexualize the kids so bad? folks, the crt stuff of and this sexualizing of kids, it's the same thing. they want to demoralize and break down the kids in school to make sure they divide them from the if parents. because once they're divided from the parents, they are vulnerable, and it creates another generation of activists. i got a rant on this tonight you

don't want to miss. this is not by accident, folks. this is an activist scouting camp. that's what they see public schools as. rachel: absolutely. it's all we talked about earlier again, it's about separating the children from their parents' values and turning them into little revolutionaries. you're 100% right. i do not want to miss that. who are the other people on the show? >> i government heather gracie, one of the greatest mixed martial arts fighters, my humble opinion, the best segment i've ever done. a self-defense clinic after the will smith -- don't get slapped like chris rock. [laughter] will: unfiltered tonight. i think we have a minute or two left. i'm just going to ask dan about this, you know, there's an amazing clip going around from 2004 of dr. anthony fauci emphatically acknowledging the existence of natural immunity. of course, it is a complete contradiction to the dr. fauci

of modern day 2020. what's going on, dan? if what, what's with the about face? [laughter] >> could we go back to the story we talked about at the beginning, how an alleged expert says something dumb and the media takes it as a talking point? guys, i learned about natural immunity from the charlie brown encyclopedia. anybody, dr. fauci, one of world's preeminent if epidemiologists, natural immunity? my negotiation what's that? if -- my gosh, what's that? pete: let me ask you the why again on this one. why? >> because, guys, they are socialists, all of these people. this was never about, this was about control. they needed a control vehicle. the vaccine mandate was a control -- nothing to do with the vaccine. they talked down the rack seen under donald trump telephone the

vaccine. it was a control vehicle to believe that your body was their body, and anything that didn't have to do with them, natural immunity happens naturally. how do they talk down and soften you up to government control. that's the reason. do you notice the two things, the only two acceptable narratives on the left? what were they? do you notice they both involved things the government could tell you to do, a mask mandate, the vax mandate? aunt body treatment, natural immunity, things the government couldn't tell you to do were talked down. guys, do you think that's an accident? it wasn't an accident. it was done deliberately. rachel: all right. dan, i think it's about submission and government control, for sure, but i don't think you can exclude big pharma and the profit motives there. >> no. of course, money talks and bs walks, right? rachel: right. and our government bureaucrats should work for us and not corporations. >> oh, yeah. good luck with that. [laughter] rachel: i can't wait for your show tonight, dan. >> thank you.

pete: great to have you, always. all right. up next to a fox news alert. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy speaking to bret baier last night on the ongoing war in his country. will: neither confirming, nor denying an attack on a russian fuel depot, to be clear, in russia. listen. >> i'm sorry, i do not discuss any of my orders as commander in chief. there are things which i only share with the military, armed forces of ukraine and when they talk with me. rachel: alex hogan is live on the ground in lviv. alex, what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: well, rachel and pete, what we know is that russians really bearing down on the eastern city of mariupol right now, preventing humanitarian aid from getting in and preventing civilians from getting out. only 6,000 of the roughly 100,000 people who are still trapped in that city managed to

make it out yesterday of after russian forces blocked many of the buses there. the red cross even halting its attempts to make evacuations saying that conditions made it impossible to proceed. but at the same time, it's impossible for residents to stay with the ramped-up bombings and not enough food or drinkable water. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: i have have only one question, why? we only lived as normal people, and our normal life was destroyed. we lost everything. i don't have any job, i can't find my son. he used to live in another part of the city directly on the front lines. people were not allowed to crosses the line. people were killed there. i don't know what happened to my son, and if my husband would be able to find him. >> reporter: just horrifying stories that we have heard time and time again from many of the refugees fleeing the country.

now, looking closer at the northern part of the country near the capital of kyiv and nearby children heave -- cher heave, russian troops have also headed out of chernobyl as well as the northern part of the country. russia is continually sending -- accusing ukraine of sending two fighter helicopters to blow up an oil depot about 20-30 miles outside of the border of ukraine. and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy as well as the ministry of defense saying they have no information about this. today rescue teams pulled out the bodies in the rubble of a government building that took place this week, that attack killing 33 people and 34 others are wounded. ukrainian president zelenskyy has addressed nearly 24 parliaments since the war began in the last five weeks,

continuing to call on the world stage asking for more foreign help. the u.s. has pledged another $300 million, and that is adding to what is now up to $2.3 billion in foreign aid to come here to help ukrainians. guys, back to you. pete: alex hogan, thanks for the update. we turn now to your headlines in this 9:00 hour. the navy identifies the service member who was killed when a hawkeye plane went down in the waters off the coast of virginia. hiram hanlon was on the flight wednesday. the commanding naval officer says he embodied courage and patriotism. two other crew members were rescued from the crash and are recovering. the cause of that crash still unclear. and a new york judge denies ghislaine maxwell's request for a retrial following her conviction on sex trafficking charges. maxwell made the request after it was discovered a juror in her

case failed to december close childhood sexual -- disclose childhood sexual abuse. the judge said the miscommunication was, quote, unfortunate but not deliberate or based on bias, end quote. the judge set maxwell's sentencing for june. she faces up to of -- up to 65 years in prison. and tonight former prime minister donald trump holds a save america rally in michigan. you can watch it live start to finish streaming on fox nation. it starts at 6 p.m. eastern time. trump rally tonight, 6 p.m. eastern time on fox nation. and those are your headlines. rachel: on fox nation. by the way, pete, you gave me a tip last week. you said, rachel, the fox nation hunter biden documentary with judge jeanine is really good. i watched it, and it is really good, and it will make your blood boil, but it's a lot of great information. some of it a that you don't know is out there. pete: they did a great job. and it's their rated in hunter's

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>> well, sure. i mean, what could go wrong offering $1,000 to people randomly? that easton on top of the $14 is billion that governor newsom offered last year on homelessness, when he was asked if it would attract people from around the country, he said it probably would but he didn't care, so what could go wrong offering free housing and cash to anybody who wants it? if 50-75% of people on the street right now in california are from out of state, the vast majority are suffering from drug addiction and mental illness. we're in the worst drug epidemic in human history and the worst homeless crisis ever, that we've ever had anywhere in the world. we've seen homelessness increase 31% in california over the last ten years even as it declined by 18% in the rest of the country. there's just no accountability being required by anybody, and this continues to -- this will continue to make the problem worse. so it's a pretty terrible idea coming at the worth time

possible -- worst time possible. i'll put an end to these programs when i'm governor. we can't just be handing out cash and housing without anything in return. rachel: yeah. i guess he said the money is in order to help people who were negatively financially impacted by covid-19. the governor's policies made everything or worse for people, and in the just seems very gimmicky and not at all going to address the root causes of people's despair in california. >> yeah. if we want to help poor people, which i support, we should do what as had bipartisan support which is an earned income tax credit, we should reward work and sobriety, not just be handing out money to whoever demands it. rachel: so you're in california. those of us who don't live there think it's kind of nuts out there. is there support to your -- for your common sense approach, or do the citizens of california

like these kind of gimmicks, a lottery, a thousand people get, you know, guaranteed income, giving out gas cards to people in order to solve the inflation problem? i mean, these dumb things, do your citizens like this? do they want what you're selling? >> i mean, a small minority do, the people that benefit from it. but the fact of the matter is i'm drawing support because i'm no-party preference. i was a life lifelong democrat, i changed my party affiliation last year. of i'm drawing equal support from republicans, independents and democrats. if you go to shellenberger for governor.com, it's a moderate agenda i'm proposing. there is a role for helping the poor, the working class, but we need to make housing, energy and water abundant, we need too far good -- to have good jobs that pay high wages. this welfare-based approach has failed. i should know. i used to believe in it, but it creates the wrong incentives. it creates incentives for people to come into the state to be

addicts, to live on the street is. we need to have -- a hand up rather than a handout. and you can see that one of our congresspersons, maxine waters, nearly created a riot in los angeles last week when she tried to give away housing. rachel: yeah. these dependency programs don't just work economically speaking, but they also kill people's souls. i think everyone wants a reason to wake up, and that's god, family and purpose. and i think you're right about that. thank you, michael, for joining us. we wish you luck, and we hope you bring common sense to a crazy state. san fransicko is the book he wrote. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. rachel: all right. disney v. florida, the company going woke. lieutenant above of the sunshinr of the sunshine state, jeanette nunez, responds next. it was time for a nunormal with nucala.

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will: we're back with a look at your headlines. the biden administration will lift title 42 next month as over 62,000 illegal migrants crossed the border if march alone. the may or yo with of i have vivaldi, texas, joined us earlier with what those consequences might be. >> you take this title 42 away, the surge is going to be, it will be an invasion. there's no other way to describe it other than that. you're going to see 30, 40,000 people a day. will: meanwhile, texas public safety officials bust a suspect smuggling 76 illegal migrants inside a trailer. actor will smith resigns from the academy of motion pictures arts and sciences after slapping chris rock at the oscars saying, quote: my actions were shocking, painful and inexcusable, i will accept any further consequences the board deems appropriate. the organization accepted his resignation and has said he

faces possible expulsion. now to march madness is, second seed u-conn advances to the women's final. the huskies' victory sets up a matchup with the south carolina gamecocks for the title tomorrow, and tonight the men's final four tips off in new orleans at the superdome, 1-seed kansas will face 2-seed villanova first, then the rivalry game, duke and unc. not because you're board, but because we go to bed early. pete: we'll be asleep. i'm going to watch the heck out of that first game though. will: watch it so hard. [laughter] pete: disney slammed for hypocrisy in wake of their controversial stance on florida's parental rights bill, the so-called don't say gay bill. it doesn't say that, but i digress. critics pointing out that the entertainment giant offers cruises to at least three countries with actual anti-gay laws. and and plans to expand business

operations in ten more. those are some of the countries that they plan to expand to, the other countries are places where being gay is illegal. let's bring in florida lieutenant governor jeanette nunez to react. lieutenant governor, thanks so much for being here. what are we to make of this? one bill very narrowly tailored in florida that's totally mischaracterized is enough to cause disney to erupt, but they're willing to do business around the world with countries where it's literally illegal to be gay. >> well, pete, i think you're absolutely correct. we stand here in florida on the right -- on behalf of the rights of parents. and it's a sad state of affairs when the most magical place on earth hasty digressed into the most hypocritical and woke place on everett. governor desantis and i, we don't take our marching orders from california corporate executives that want to push a

radical agenda on our children. they can stand there and complain, and they can criticize and threaten that they're going to work to repeal this legislation, but they certainly have a lot of worked to do within their own ranks -- work to do within their own ranks. they're doing business with the chinese communist party, they don't care about the human rights abuses that occur night and day. i think you're right to point out the hypocrisy and the level that they are willing to sustain. pete: i mean, it's unbelievable, staggering. wait to put the full screen back up of those countries. saudi arabia? libya? if -- i mean, not only is there no freedom of sexual choice in those countries, free speech, freedom of religion, none of it. yet they're happy to open up and expand into those particular countries. we've herald the outrage from the woke executives and a few people on zoom calls. what's the reaction been to the governor's and your, to this bill that passed amongst the rank and file, floridians and disney employees? do they understand what you're trying to do here?

this. >> if today take the time to read the bill, absolutely. the vast majority of americans, the vast majority of floridians support this legislation because it does two very simple things. it requires school districts to provide parents with any change in any services being offered whether it's mental or health care services, and then it prohibits school districts in grades k-3 from pushing a curriculum that is based on sexual orientation or gender ideology. if you're a parent -- i'm a mom of three -- i know many parents are very happy that this legislation was signed by the governor. pete: absolutely. real quick on a final topic, we only have 30 seconds. for 55 years disney has had a law that protects their ability to do really whatever they want. they don't have to ask the government for i approval to build on their own property. you and governor desantis are potentially hinting at stripping that. is that a possibility? >> well, certainly legislators have indicated that that they're taking a look at that, and i

think it's very important. mouseketeers have been profiting for a long time, and i think today really need to pay attention to what's going on in the legislature and not get caught up and bullied into taking these radical positions that are not in alignment with floridians' values. pete: disney could actually build their own nuclear power plant, and the government would have nothing to say about it. interesting that you and other republicans in florida are looking at it. lieutenant governor nunez, thank you so much for your time. appreciate it. >> thank you. pete: all right. up next, new intel suggests vladimir putin is increasingly isolated and less unaware of the deteriorating state of his army's assault on ukraine. our next guest speaks out. ♪ why is guy fieri in the neighbors' kitchen? it's slider sunday! sliiiiiiiiii-der sunday! these chicken parm sliders on king's hawaiian rolls are fire!

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our next guest spoke out early against the war. tv rain's editor-in-chief joins us now. great to see you on the program. i think there's been -- >> thanks for having me. will: -- since early on, it was regarding intel, was he getting accurate intel or with were his underlings telling him things he wanted to hear because such is the nature in a authoritarian regime. is he getting wad information? >> i don't know -- bad information. >> i don't know whether the u.s. government is correct or not, but it looks like a reality. if we go back a month ago, we knew that a lot of people this in russian government, they were sure that they would take over ukraine in three days or four days and that people would welcome them there.

which means that they were, as we just heard, they were his informed. and it looks like the situation now is the same, but now i think another reason and this reason is -- that people close to putin, they are afade to tell him that -- afraid to tell him that things are bad in ukraine, and that's why they are misinforming him. will: to be clear, what are they afraid of? we've seen the videos of him berating, i believe, military leadership, advisers to him. if he hears something he doesn't like, i'm sure berating is not really the source of the fear. >> well, the fear comes from the nature of the state. the state, russia now, unfortunately, is a authoritarian state. over last 20 years, there's been

a lot of political, criminal case against a lot of people so of course people understand how system works, and they are afraid to become the next victim. and they don't know how they could become the next victim, and they, of course, sure that they could become the next victim if they tell something unpleasant to the leader, to vladimir putin. that's why i trust these allegations of u.s. intelligence. so i think that's why they are misinforming him. will: you've got to know -- you're in exile, but i'm still you -- sure you still have connections back in russia, i'm curious what a your feedback is on the morale of the russian citizens. there are reports that the morale of the russian soldier is very low. there's reports of sabotaging their own equipment. that's what a spy leave for the united kingdom is saying, that they're -- spy chief. they're sabotaging their own equipment to avoid orders.

what is your sense of morale not just within the military, but within the russian population? >> i don't know about morale in the military, i just don't have this kind of information. as for morale in the russian population, not a lot of people, they are, they are believing what the propaganda. there is a lot of people who support this war, but we don't get real polls because the ideology in russia does not exist. i know there are a huge group of people which are against the war. but at the same time, i think that now it is too early to talk about the morale of russian population because now everyone is in shock. those who are pro-war, they are in shock as well, and they are in denial of the bad things which are being done by the government. so i think we should wait couple of months, and we will see what

happens with russian society, with russian population because a lot of people, unfortunately, died there, a lot of people have relatives who died there, a lot of people -- [inaudible] and why are the sanctions were imposed, so let's wait and we will see. will: so wait for those sanctions to take effect, wait for the economy to feel more pain -- >> yes. will: -- and wait, unfortunately, for some of those russian soldiers to return in body bags and then see how the russian population feels. okay. great to talk to you. >> thank you so much. will: generosity on display at the pump as an april fuels day happens. and tune in to "fox & friends" tomorrow. we've got a great show for your sunday, congressman byron donalds, jim banks, plus mike huckabee and jason rantz will all join us live. ♪ ♪

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>> welcome back to "fox & friends." we are in springfield, missouri, at the bass pro shop's world fishing fair celebrating the 15th anniversary of bass pro

shops, and they let me put my weather maps in their big, gigantic monitor. this is a look at the forecast for today, cold air across parts of the far northern tier of the country. 49 in minneapolis, getting up to 54 in new york. ea across the south, 78 in dallas. florida, you are going to see some showers on and off all weekend long. temps getting pretty good. coming again severe weather in areas of texas, stretched out across the deep south. third week in a a row of severe weather breaking off -- breaking out across parts of the southeast. guys, back to you in the studio from ear in springfield, missouri. -- from here. if. will: all right, rick. he really upgraded. [laughter] an act of generosity at the pump had drivers lining up for nine hours waiting to fill up their tank. pete: massachusetts car dealer

ernie bach jr. posting ail fuels day offering, quote, free gas, no joke. the event was so successful, he plans on going doing it again in the future. ernie bach jr. joins us now live and in the flesh. thank you so much for being here, sir. >> thanks for having me. pete: so let me start with what did you do and is why did you do it in. >> well, i'll tell you, i was filling up a friend of mine's tank, and i put it in and it startedded going 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, $107 to fill up a tank. i said, this is absolutely craze i. i had to do something. so i called my buddy greg hill, radio guy, we do a lot of stuff. east got a foundation, i've got a foundation. i pitched him the idea, he said, great. greg came up with april fuels. and when i heard april fuels, it just all happened. it was great. you had to get the word out, and that's what we did. pete: looking at that sign right

there, 0.00. >> yeah. that was cool. they brought it right down to 0. rachel: i mean, i would say that and go, oh, april fools joke. but people actually pulled in, and did you get to see people fuel up? >> i kicked it off. at one point we add almost a thousand cars in line. did 552 fill-ups because people, the reason why -- they waited, had to go to work, so they were coming out of the line. rachel: what kind of reaction -- >> people loved it, absolutely loved it. it was great. i asked people if you need gas, come. don't just come for the spectacle, if you really need gas, come, and it seemed like everybody appreciated it, and and it was really fun. rachel: yeah. people are hurting. will: how many fill-ups, you said? >> 552. 7,000 gallons. pete: so that ran you how much? >> about 30 grand. pete: were you making a larger point with too?

if. >> yeah. and the reason why we really blew it up is because i want to inspire people to do it. i was inspired. some guy in chicago did it. some guy in chicago gave away all the gas, and and i said to myself, wow, that's a great idea. and then the pump and april fuels, and it just happened. [laughter] rachel: it's amazing. somebody else did it, and they actually talked to somebody who filled up her gas tank, and she said i just got back from a job interview, and i didn't know -- if i don't get the job, i don't think i'll be able to fill up my gas tank, she was so broke, and it was such a relief. it's not just fun -- >> oh, yeah. rachel: -- some people are just hurting so much right now with the inflation and with these gas, energy policies. >> and this is the beginning. usually in the spring and summer gas goes crazy, so people did run out of gas in line. we were putting the gas in -- pete: oh, i bet. >> one guyed had a flat tire -- rachel: i think they were up to

nine hours or so waiting. >> yeah. will: that's a really cool thing, ernie. not just cool, it's inspirational a, so thank you. >> it was april fuels day. [laughter] pete: you fell ferraris for a living. >> yes. pete: that that's pretty cool. rachel: how much does it cost to full up a ferrari? >> $70? will:less than it costs to buy the car. [laughter] rachel: you don't care about the gas. will: more "fox & friends" moments away. when we found out our son had autism, his future became my focus. lavender baths calmed him. so we made a plan to turn bath time into a business. ♪ ♪ find a northwestern mutual advisor at nm.com

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